Pace: Remove RDF Discovery

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[Login] Change #25 by Mark Smith at 2006-08-06 10:16:35.

Abstract

Remove RDF-based autodiscovery of Trackback links. Implementations may continue to support the mechanism, of course, for backwards compatibility, but remove it from the spec.

Status

Proposed

Proposal

Remove Section 3.2 from the current draft.

Change Section 3.1 to:

Individual Web resources represented by HTML [W3C.REC-html401- 19991224], XHTML [W3C.REC-xhtml1-20020801], or Atom Syndication Format [I-D.ietf-atompub-format] documents MAY contain link elements with a 'rel' attribute value of 'trackback' and an 'href' attribute specifying the Trackback Ping URL for the resource.

Example HTML TrackBack Links

 &lt;link rel="trackback"
       href="http://example.org/trackback-url" />

 &lt;a rel="trackback"
    href="http://example.org/trackback-url">&lt;/a>

Example Atom TrackBack Link

 &lt;entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   ...
   &lt;link rel="trackback"
         type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
         href="http://example.org/trackback-url" />
   ...
 &lt;/entry>

Impacts

Potential backwards compatibility issues with existing trackback clients that rely on RDF-based autodiscovery.

[Login] Change #25 by Mark Smith at 2006-08-06 10:16:35.