More on Discovering Feed Indices

As my day starts to wind down, everyone else is waking up:

• Dave Winer feeds back sensibly on comments that I and others left on his original RFC;
• Sam Ruby clarifies that he wasn’t necessarily proposing a new markup;
• Dare Obasanjo asks for some real use cases to appear before we get too deep;
• Chad agrees with me, which is nice;
• Finally, Diego Doval has some thoughts as well, including nailing things down (especially encodings) more than OPML currently has them.

So perhaps what we’re looking at here is a specific instance of OPML (OPML for Feed Lists) which ties format details down a lot more than the current spec, details the auto-discovery process (a named file in a given directory and the link tag), and lists which attributes are valid on outline tags?

I’ve suggested to both Sam and Dave that Tapestry is used as a real-life use-case, so lets see where things progress from here…