Re: [syndication] OCS Version 0.5 draft

[Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>]

On Sunday, 08 September 2002 at 05:30, burton@openprivacy.org wrote:
> Reptile supports OCS but as we see more-and-more adoption of RSS we are going to
> see the downloading of whole OCS feeds as overkill.  Right now syndic8 has 11k
> feeds and I just see this getting bigger and bigger.
As I mentioned before, it's probably a good idea to have a master OCS
index that lists other possible OCS files available. Use the rss
taxonomy module to add categories to the ocs files, or group by update
frequency, or when the channels were created etc.

> Instead of using syndic8 (or another provider) to fetch a 400G OCS file we would
> use our 'subscriptions' to discovery other RSS feeds.
Instead of one 400G OCS file you end up downloading 4,000,000 100K
files once you've traversed the network. Without OCS you don't have
the metadata about the lists of other channels. Perhaps my rss
blogroll points to rss channels that have some kind of restrictive
licensing or require a sign-on. An OCS module could be developed to
characterize that kind of information.



> If this is the intent of OCS than I am +1.  If not then I still want to push
> mod_subscription forward as I really want to keep the RSS channel discovery
> mechanism function in a P2P manner..
OCS doesn't preclude P2P in any way. But it does reduce bandwidth
requirements by allowing you to be more selective about the channels
you're discovering and by not forcing you to download the last 15
postings to my weblog in their entirety.


> Kevin