RE: [syndication] discovery vs information

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

Re. fixed filenames, this might just be relevant :

[[
The architecture of the web is that the space of identifiers
on an http web site is owned by the owner of the domain name.
The owner, "publisher",  is free to allocate identifiers
and define how they are served.

Any variation from this breaks the web.  The problem
is that there are some conventions for the identifies on websites,
that

    /robots.txt  is a file controlling robot access
    /w3c/p3p is where you put a privacy policy
    /favico   is an icon representative of the web site

and who knows what others.  There is of course no
list available of the assumptions different groups and manufacturers
have used.
...
]]

Tim Berners-Lee to Technical Architecture Group
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0093.html

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