Robots PI (non-normative)?

I know this is a day after Last Call. Sorry.

Robots are an important class of link-aware applications.
Document authors need to be able to give hints to robots
about whether the links in a document should be followed.

This is sufficiently important that it is included in
Section B.4.1 (non-normative) in the HTML 4.0 spec.

A draft specification which could be included in a
non-normative appendix is here:

   http://homepages.go.com/~wunder0/robots-pi.html

This proposes a minimal robots PI, effectively the same
as the HTML robots meta tag. This has proven adequate
over several years of WWW use.

This was discussed on xml-dev, the robots mailing list,
and posted to (with no responses) xlxp-dev. Most of the
comments were resolved. I can provide a digest of the
discussion, if that would be helpful.

If a non-normative appendix is not possible, I would hope
that someone on the committee could sponsor this as a
NOTE.

wunder
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Walter R. Underwood
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Infoseek Software
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Received on Tuesday, 21 March 2000 11:53:22 UTC