On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Itay Neeman wrote: > > Do people have any more thoughts on the matter? So far, the main points > > seems to be: > > > > 1. We need a way to link pubsub items to other pubsub items (whether PEP > > or vanilla PubSub). This can involve links to nodes on other pubsub > > services as well. > > What exactly do we mean by links? Do we mean things like "in-reply-to" > and "in-reference-to"? It seems to me that we're basically talking about > distributed threading of some kind. I assume the NNTP people solved this > problem back in 1987 or so. :)
I quote you :) "However I think in general that we'll want to link pubsub items (for a wide variety of use cases, not just blogging/comments/SNA stuff) so we'll need to define that anyway." That's what I mean by linking (sorry if this was unclear). Did NNTP solve this? Probably, but we need a solution in the context of XMPP, and one which is agreed on, obviously. > > > > 2. It is unclear what the best node topology for a blog is. > > I think this is more than blogs -- this is linking between any two given > pubsub nodes or items. Blogging is one application of that, but so might > be an NNTP-like netnews system. Exactly. But the ability to cross-reference items is very potent in allowing a lot of flexibility the non-blogging scenarios as well. > > > > Anything I missed? From looking at SIOC, it looks like it might be a > > contender for linking things. > > I must admit that my mind does natively think in terms of RDF. > Neither does mine! :) Itay
