On 28/1/09 16:28, Federico Marani wrote:
some sort of service discovery seems a good idea... i'd be happy to
write some code
Perhaps this is a bit chicken-and-egg, but here is a proposal:
Every OMB server keeps a table of known (public) activity between
accounts held on its server vs offsite accounts. For example, if
@foaf2foaf.org:danbri and @identi.ca:evan are following each other, the
servers should notice this and expose links to the other server on an
"other OMB services" page.
Of course, how @foaf2foaf.org:danbri and @identi.ca:evan find each
other in the first place is also at issue here. There are many routes to
discovery; this proposal only ensures that when any pair of users from
diverse services have found each other, this is propagated up to the
wider community in a machine-readable fashion.
Plausible?
Prototyping ideas:
1. can we query the DB to find pairs of users where one is offsite?
2. can we get any more evidence that the distant server is functional?
3. what service information should be made available? to humans? to
machines? to both (I suggest XHTML+RDFa here, others like XRDS etc too)
Dan
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http://danbri.org/
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