Robots Processing Instruction

Recently, I've been discussing the issues of privacy and copyright 
surrounding syndication formats. In the quest for a reasonable solution, 
I've been pointed to Walter Underwood's proposal for a robots processing 
instruction [1]. The idea is to fill the same role as the HTML robots 
meta tag, but in an XML way. The idea is that you'd simply place 
something like

<?robots index="no" follow="yes"?>

near the beginning of the file so well-behaved bots know what to do.

I've made a new page for the proposal [2] and written a new version [3]. 
Hopefully it will save people the trouble of handling "please don't 
index my content" e-mails by hand.

Does this seem like a reasonable idea?

[1] http://purl.org/net/robotspi/spec-199912__/
[2] http://purl.org/net/robotspi/
[3] http://purl.org/net/robotspi/spec-20050423/

-Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma




 
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