- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:57:16 -0500
- To: Phil Archer <phil@philarcher.org>
- Cc: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 20:39 +0000, Phil Archer wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > A couple of things I think I'd expect to see in this doc: [...] One that came to my mind is metalinker: http://www.metalinker.org/ It's relevant to "Input to decision to buy, download, or read" "Links to related documents (prev/next in series, translations, etc)" It's mostly information about checksums and mirror sites for reliable bulk download: "Metalink is an open specification that harnesses the speed and power of peer to peer networking, FTP, and HTTP with a single click. For users and content providers, Metalink makes things simpler, faster, and more reliable." I haven't studied the P2P aspect of it closely. The hook it rides on is MIME types. (application/metalink+xml) hmm... not registered. http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/ > Jonathan Rees wrote: > > Pursuant to ACTION-227, and I hope in time for review prior to the F2F, > > I put together the following: > > > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/02/metadata-survey.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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