Re: Refresh patterns and ACLs

On 29/08/2008, at 11:20 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On fre, 2008-08-29 at 10:44 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> I'm not convinced it's a great solution, but something like URISpace
>> may be appropriate;
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/urispace.html
>
> Not very different in function, besides being XML..
>
> However, the URISpace xml tag space is a bit too limited, so it
> needs to
> be extended a lot. And it's focus is a little different from what we
> need in a general sense (but may fit reasonably well for a reverse
> proxy
> or web server).

The whole point is that it's extensible. Being XML makes it portable,
encourages tool development, etc. (which is what we were looking for
at Akamai).

Again, I'm not saying that this is the answer -- IMO URISpace is too
compex (although so is the problem space); I just despair of having
yet another solution in this space; see

http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/
http://xrds-simple.net/
http://www.sitemaps.org/

ad nauseum...

>
>
>> What's nice about this is that you buy some efficiency by walking
>> down
>> the tree, rather than evaluating a linear set of rules...
>
> Same.
>
> Regards
> Henrik

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