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[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter AT jabber.org>]

Evan, are you on all the same lists I'm on? :-)

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-28-11 at 08:54 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> Fred and I have been talking about writing up the microid spec for a few
>> months now but we're both so busy that we haven't gotten to it yet. :(
>> Another issue is that microid is not quite like the other microformats
>> out there, but I think that would be OK with the microformats folks.
> 
> I think that it goes against the core philosophy of microformats.org --
> that semantic information should also be human-readable. It's not an
> idea I share, but it's something they hold onto pretty tenaciously.

This is true.

> Frankly, I don't think that microformats.org has much to offer MicroID.
> At the end of the day, after whatever hoops uF's makes you jump through,
> you've got exactly 0 more microids published in the world. Any energy
> that went into getting it adopted by microformats.org would be far
> better spent getting it adopted by Myspace, Friendster, Wikipedia,
> Yahoo, dot dot dot.

You're probably right.

But would it help to write up a slightly more formal spec so that
developers can grok the concept?

Peter

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