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

Fred Stutzman wrote:
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> I agree as well.  I think the first step is to get a clearly documented
> spec that we agree on - if MF community wants to accept that's fine, but
> it is certainly no dealbreaker if they don't.
> 
> In talks to Yahoo, they wanted a spec.  They didn't ask for the MF
> community's recognizance.  Maybe it is time to start documenting the
> spec? This has been on my todo list for way too long.

Mine too. Not sure about you, but I don't typically work on something
until I've been poked a few times so that I know there's real interest.
I think we can consider ourselves poked. :-)

Since I'm the spec writer around here, I would be happy to work up an
initial spec (probably using the RFC format) soon. How about I commit to
the end of next week?

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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