RE: OK enough, lets fix blogspam

Could this be done with <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW">
tag?  Maybe it just needs to be more granular to apply to specific
portions of a HTML body instead of a whole page.

Michael McCormick, CISSP 
Lead Architect, Information Security 

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From: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:02 PM
To: W3 Work Group
Subject: OK enough, lets fix blogspam


My blogs overunneth with spam. Yea my cup is full to overflowing.
 
 
None of the spam is targetted at either me or my readers. It is all
targetted at Google's web crawler and their pagerank algorithm.
 
At the F2F meeting someone opposite me raised a similar solution to the
following but in the context of scripting its a simple fix that I think
would work.
 
 
The idea is to have a HTML attribute or element that allows a server to
declare that a section of a Web page came from an external source. The
idea would be to encapsulate all blog comments and the like so that
browsers can look at the content and conclude 'don't run any code from
this region' and Web crawlers can ignore the content for the purposes of
PageRank and the like.
 
In order to get maximal security the best approach would be to use some
form of nonce sentinel value at the start and finish of the block as was
proposed at one of the TIPPI workshops.
 
In order to engage the type of accountability controls that I want to
establish it should also be possible to specify the authenticated poster
identity if known.
 
 
So for example we might have:
 
<p>My Web 3.14159265 meme seems to be catching on. 
<Inc:Start rel="foreign" authID="mailto:alice@example.com"
authmech="saml1.2" sentinel="aegq3tgr2q3uyt1387==" />
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works!</a>
<Inc:End sentinel="aegq3tgr2q3uyt1387==">
 
 
It needs some work to fit it into XHTML properly. Close tags don't take
attributes in XML which is a challenge.
 
To be effective the sentinel values have to be synthesized on the fly
with the rest of the content but that should not be a huge issue.
 
 
Where is the best place to work on this? Do we have any Google people
here?