hello.
i am sure this has already been discussed at some point in time, but i
cannot remember seeing it, so i am asking this here: it might be useful
to give a feed publisher some simple methods of making statements about
a feed's update properties, such as a timestamp, a frequency, and some
variation specification (maybe even a "maximum number of updates per
time interval"). all of this would not be binding, but it might already
help a client to adjust its feed polling strategy better than by
observation alone. the update model should probably be simple and thus
could probably be a simple extension with a small number of elements.
would anybody be interested in such an extension? or are there already
some "extensions" like this but they are not yet standardized?
i am thinking about this in the context of the "web of things", where i
want to provide access to a lot of real-world objects or events via
feeds, and a substantial number of these feeds will have update models
that could help clients to more effectively access the feed.
thanks and cheers,
erik wilde tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
[email protected] - http://dret.net/netdret
UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool)
