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TrackBack Standard?

Byrne Reese: I have finally pulled the trigger on ushering the process of getting TrackBack accepted as a core Internet standard.  I may feel differently in a couple months, but for some reason I have always wanted to be a key player in the Internet standards. First as an implementor, then as a participant, and now perhaps as a driver.

The timing couldn’t be better.  I’ve been talking with a couple other people on duplicating the functionality of CoComment with a trackback-like protocol, but if trackback could simply be extended to provide the functionality, that could possibly be even better.

Posted by Bob Aman at

So does this mean that hiding data in comments, using an RDF overkill for communicating a single URL, “parsing” RDF using regexps and dealing with character encodings only as an afterthought are going to make it into a core Internet standard?

Posted by Henri Sivonen at

No, by the time the working group gets done with it, it’ll be much more complicated than that.

Posted by Mark at

The RDF in comments thing is apparently no longer going to be a requirement, since a normal <link> element will be allowed, but I’m personally hoping the RDF thing will go away entirely.  It would be nice.

Posted by Bob Aman at

The current pre-draft of the spec introduces a <link> element for autodiscovery.  We need to work out the multiple-links on a single page case, but that’s just a matter of defining a microformat.  I think everyone pretty much wants the embedded RDF to go away.

Posted by James Snell at

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TrackBack Growing Up

It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows......

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TrackBack Growing Up

It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows......

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