[uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved & new proposal

[Mike Schinkel]

>> You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D
>> However, those solutions are against the grain of microformats.  
>> They'd no longer be simple, they'd no longer work together. There would
be too many of them. 

Then I am getting more and more disenchanted with the whole MicroFormat
concept. Microformats will be nowhere nearly as useful I as first assumed it
to be.

-Mike Schinkel
http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/
http://www.welldesignedurls.org/



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Ryan
King
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:31 PM
To: Microformats Discuss
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Mailing list debate moved & new proposal

On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:37 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> I'm going to reply to several responses at once.
>
>>> Why not create a new mailing list for each proposal, once it's 
>>> reached a certain stage?
> Ryan King>>  Because that's more administrative overhead for Ryan 
> King>>  admin's who're already overloaded.
>
> The problem is that the current Microformat process is not at all 
> scalable.
> It is much like having you managing a file containing all domain 
> names, and anytime someone wants a new domain name or subdomain, or 
> make a change, they have to get your time and attention. I think we 
> all know what a boon DNS was.  We should look to benefit from prior 
> knowledge and organize the Microformat inititive so it can scale.

You seem to assume that we want to scale. :D

The beauty of DNS is that you can divide up the process of minting domain
names in a way that it's impossible for people to step on each other's toes.
With microformats, we don't have such technology. We could use URI
namespaces (which, ironically, leverage DNS), or we could do prefixing of
property names or something else.

However, those solutions are against the grain of microformats.  
They'd no longer be simple, they'd no longer work together. There would be
too many of them.

-ryan
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