On 06/15/2010 01:28 PM, Kevin Marks wrote:
Is 'Feed' a usable term? Thats widely used or Atom + RSS, but I've seen
it used for JSON too, eg http://jsonduit.com/
In my JSON PubSubHubbub draft I used the term "stream resource" to
describe the more general idea of a resource that consists of a bunch of
items which each have distinct lifetimes, in an attempt to express a
superset containing the idea of a feed of the kind you'd expect to load
into a "feed reader" for human consumption as well as more
machine-oriented data.
However, I'm by no means wedded to the idea.
Perhaps it would be better to make a distinction on type of subscription
rather than type of resource.
All resources support a "whole-resource subscription" which re-delivers
the entire resource each time it changes.
Some resources support "stream-based subscription" which delivers new
items and changes to existing items in a particular media type.
The Link header defines a resource's hun for whole-resource
subscription, but a hub for a stream-based subscription is determined
via a mechanism specific to the stream media type.
