Re: New URI scheme talk in RSS-land

On Dec 5, 2003, at 1:45 PM, Jan Algermissen wrote:

> Hmm...this confuses me - isnt't dispatching to the right application
> one of the primary uses/purposes of mime-types?
>
>> because the RSS client doesn't need the
>> representation, it needs the URI.
>
> What do you mean by "it needs the URI"?

I mean it needs the URI, because it wants to *subscribe* to the feed, 
i.e. stash the URI away somewhere and do a GET on it regularly to see 
if anything's changed.  I've suggested that in fact this proposed 
scheme shouldn't be named "feed:" it should be named "subscribe:" -Tim