I think its a good idea. Many are interested simply in getting pushes for changes in feeds or arbitrary content.
In addition I would like to clarify that Publishers can also be Hubs. The protocol should be the same regardless of whether they are getting pushes from a hub or directly from the publisher (in the case of big publishers like MySpace and FB, the publisher was the hub) On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Julien Genestoux < [email protected]> wrote: > All, > > I believe that the Publisher -> Hub part of the protocol should be left > out of the "core" spec. > The motivation behind it is that many hubs out there (Wordpress, > Superfeedr's... etc) have different ways of handling this without affacting > much of how the general "idea" of the protocol works. > I believe the Section 7.1 should be set as optional, as well as section > 7.2. > Something like this would work well, according to me : > Once a publisher designates a hub he wants to use, he then SHOULD use any > of the supported method by this hub to notify new content. 7.1 and 7.2 > should certainly be put as an annex/example of how this can be done. > > What do you think? > > Julien >
