Re: [syndication] OCS Version 0.5 draft

[Morten Frederiksen <mof-syndication@mfd-consult.dk>]

Hi (Kevin),

On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:18, you wrote:
> I can't help but think that the concept of an RSS feed is obsolete:
Interesting, but what does it have to do with this?

> 1.  We have ways to search for content on other peers via standard formats
> (SOAP over any binding (JXTA, BEEP, HTTP))
Maybe so, but certainly not in widespread use, not something that I see 
changing soon.

> 2.  The format is bloated... 5k or so per channel.  It just isn't scalable
> to millions of feeds
That's a property of XML/RDF, not the format, and I think 5k is quite an 
overstatement, it's more like 1k (max).

> 3.  We now have the mod_subscription spec [1] which can be used by RSS
>     readers/aggregators to discover other RSS channels and with the
>     mod_link spec one can link to additional RDF.
I don't see the point of mod_subscription when mod_link exists, i.e. bloating 
the RSS with constant metadata. This information should stay separate from 
the feed itself, it's not related.


Regards,
Morten Frederiksen