RE: NoIndex, again

2005-04-20 Thread Bob Wyman
Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote: I now know that Creative Commons has an RDF schema for describing licensing We've been over this ground many times before. Read my post at: http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2005/03/lazyweb_query_a.html Creative commons licenses can only be used to

Re: NoIndex, again

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Hoffman
We chose not to put things like this in the Atom core. Feel free to write an extension and discuss it here; there was certainly interest in many directions about grappling with the many intertwined issues that arise out of copyright, privacy, and so on. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail

Re: NoIndex, again

2005-04-19 Thread Antone Roundy
I believe we decided not to address licensing in the Atom core because the probability of not getting it quite right is too high, especially given the differences between laws in various jurisdictions around the world. Having something in the core might require consuming applications to

Re: NoIndex, again

2005-04-19 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
The problem I'm having is with LiveJournal. They have 6.8 million registered users, with 2.7 million active. We're talking about a robots.txt of hundreds of megabytes. I imagine other blog hosting sites (Blogger, Xanga) have a similar problem. Also, robots.txt can only handle noindex. What about

Re: NoIndex, again

2005-04-19 Thread John Panzer
Regarding the privacy facet: True privacy probably requires access control, which requires authentication. In fact this is one of the major use cases for authenticated Atom feeds in AOL Journals. -John Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote on 4/19/05, 8:50 PM: Some pertinent quotes from the

Re: NoIndex, again

2005-04-19 Thread Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma
James Robertson wrote: At 11:38 PM 4/19/2005, you wrote: The problem I'm having is with LiveJournal. They have 6.8 million registered users, with 2.7 million active. We're talking about a robots.txt of hundreds of megabytes. I imagine other blog hosting sites (Blogger, Xanga) have a