Web Things, by Mark Baker

Sam Ruby implements the RSS Trackback module in his RSS 2.0 feed. It’s implemented by simply including a “trackback:ping” qualified URI in the item. For the item that corresponded to his announcement of support, the URI is;

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1105.tb

So being the Web-head that I am, I invoked GET on it. Here’s what I saw;

<?xml version="1.0" ? >
<response>
<error>1</error>
<message<excerpt not found</message>
/<response>

I note that Paul, Ben, and Mena had written about what could be returned, which is bang on from my POV, though you could also include the number of received pings in there, which could be useful, and make a nice link from the human-readable blog.

Just thinking out loud; I’m not trying to put more work on Sam’s plate 8-).

A nice surprise turned up in my IETF mailbox this yesterday, Applying WebDAV to Network Configuration Management Problems.

This memo examines the potential of using WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) technologies to address the problems of network configuration management. It reviews requirements and issues that have been identified in IETF network configuration management and operator requirements discussions, matching these requirements and issues with various WebDAV facilities. It concludes by identifying areas for further exploration.

Bravo. We need more of this kind of reuse-friendly work.

Which reminds me … I forgot to mention that an Internet Draft that I wrote with Dan Connolly on a related topic (reuse, in the context of registries) was published too.