Re: Re: enclosure status?

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Dan Brickley wrote:
> * Lucas Gonze <[email protected]> [2005-04-09 15:05-1000]
>>
>> On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Vadim Zaliva wrote:
>
>> About Bittorrent in particular, that's a tough nut to crack because BT is
>> so contrary to web architecture.  There must be prior art for indirection
>> of that kind, though.  ?
>
> In what way is BT contrary to webarch? http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/
> I guess the format of .torrent files is pretty inscrutable, where
> webheads might put some/all of it into XML or XML/RDF.

I'm thinking of a couple things.

One is that hiding the properties of a link behind an intermediate 
description file in a private format breaks the ability to manipulate the 
link using web techniques.  You can't HEAD it, and you can't even fetch 
the file and parse the mime type out.

The other is that the BT protocol itself is outside of the web.

I don't mean to whine about how BT needs to be like everybody else, 
because it's pretty cool for what it is.  I mean to say that getting it to 
fit smoothly with the rest of the web, the way everything else about RSS 
does, is a project in itself.  Personally I would attack that project as a 
standalone thing rather than try to do it in the RSS enclosure spec.

- Lucas



 
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