TrackBack Standard?
Byrne
Reese: I have finally pulled the trigger on
ushering the process of getting TrackBack accepted as a core
Internet standard. I may feel differently in a couple
months, but for some reason I have always wanted to be a key player
in the Internet standards. First as an
implementor, then
as a participant, and now
perhaps as a
driver.
So does this mean that hiding data in comments, using an RDF overkill for communicating a single URL, “parsing” RDF using regexps and dealing with character encodings only as an afterthought are going to make it into a core Internet standard?
Posted by Henri Sivonen at
No, by the time the working group gets done with it, it’ll be much more complicated than that.
Posted by Mark at
The RDF in comments thing is apparently no longer going to be a requirement, since a normal <link> element will be allowed, but I’m personally hoping the RDF thing will go away entirely. It would be nice.
Posted by Bob Aman at
The current pre-draft of the spec introduces a <link> element for autodiscovery. We need to work out the multiple-links on a single page case, but that’s just a matter of defining a microformat. I think everyone pretty much wants the embedded RDF to go away.
Posted by James Snell at
Trackback: IETF standards track?
Does the Internet really need a standardized protocol which allows Alice to add the words “Bob has a great post about fishing!” to the bottom of Bob’s post about fishing?... [more]Trackback from The Lurker at
TrackBack Growing Up
It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows...... [more]Trackback from ProNet at
TrackBack Growing Up
It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows......Excerpt from ProNet at
TrackBack Growing Up
It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows......Excerpt from Six Apart News at
The timing couldn’t be better. I’ve been talking with a couple other people on duplicating the functionality of CoComment with a trackback-like protocol, but if trackback could simply be extended to provide the functionality, that could possibly be even better.
Posted by Bob Aman at