Re: [syndication] OCS Version 0.5 draft

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:

> > 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.
> 
> But there's no need to download the feeds in bulk.  It's possible for user to
> give syndic8 a list of feeds and that can be downloaded by others in OCS, RSS
> or opml.  So if you're going to have a network of nodes that want to exchange,
> have them exchange what's a interest, not just what's known.

Yes... this is the point I was trying to make.  I think that the OCS format
could be used for syndication of subscription information it just needs:

1. documentation
2. implementation

<snip/>

> Weblog signal to noise ratio could hardly be considered high...  But the point
> vis a vis the similar reader interests, is likely to be true.  So have them
> exchange OCS fragments in parallel to a feed.  Both the feed and the OCS may
> have different update frequencies.  The OCS file might be changing frequently
> but the content hasn't updated in days or vice versa.

Sure.  I was thinking about documenting the syndication schedule of the OCS
using the mod_syndicate module.

... anyway.  

> > 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..
> 
> And you can with OCS, without cramming everything into an RSS feed.  How about
> using your mod_link to indicate an available OCS representation of channels
> "most interesting" to the RSS feed?  This way a reader program doesn't have to
> pull all the subscription cruft when it wants to read the titles.

The mod_subscription module was intended to be used with mod_link.  I started
working on it before OCS 0.5 came out.  I will try to look over this and see if
I can document the use of OCS for adhoc channel discovery within RSS via the
link module.

> But if the user is interested, the presense of the OCS link can be presented
> and retrieved if desired.  Nothing's stopping the user from defaulting that
> behavior for any/all OCS links detected but the reader who /don't/ want that
> extra bulk are completely free to ignore it.
<snip/>

yup.

Kevin

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