Re: RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml

Dave Winer wrote:
> A few weeks back, a question was raised by Jeremy Zawodny on behalf of
> Yahoo. They have a large number of RSS feeds that they want to make
> available to aggregators. They need a machine-readable format and a default
> location for the file. Further, this file should be able to contain links to
> other files in this format so that directories can be distributed.
> 
> A format and location is proposed in this document.
> 
> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/myPublicFeedsOpml

Please reconsider your use of a fixed URI for the location
of the OPML file. While this is the same mechanism
that 'favicon.ico' and 'robots.txt' files use, the use
of hardcoded URIs isn't a good idea. Tim Berners-Lee
outlines some of the problems with such an approach
in this message[1] and this issue is currently under
consideration of the W3C Tag[2].

	Thanks,
	-joe

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0093.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist#siteData-36

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