- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:52:10 -0600
- To: www-tag@w3.org
"3. The host-meta Document Format
The host-meta document uses the XRD 1.0 document format as defined by
[OASIS.XRD-1.0], which provides a simple and extensible XML-based
schema for describing resources."
-- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-hostmeta-04
This pretty clearly overlaps with POWDER. I wonder why it wasn't caught at
CR or even much earlier.
Did the W3C POWDER WG neglect to engage a relevant part of the community?
Is a significant community producing things like site copyright policies
with POWDER?
If so, and Host-Meta with XRD gets deployed, then consumers will have to
support both formats.
That seems like a pretty clear standardization failure.
Copyright in particular isn't shown in the primer, but lots of other
nearby stuff is:
# How does POWDER work in the real world?
* Trustmarks
o Visual notification
o Monitoring
o Description authentication
* Accessibility
* MobileOK
* Child Protection
* Functional User Experience
* Privileged Content
* Semantics
o Search
o Distinguishing opinion
-- http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-powder-primer-20090901/
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
Received on Monday, 7 December 2009 17:52:12 UTC