PaceLinkService

[Henry Story <henry.story@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok so since there is enough interest, and so that James Snell can  
relax a bit, I have written out a first version of

http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceLinkService

== Abstract ==

Create a link so that feeds can point to their service document(s).

== Status ==

in development

== Rationale ==

Currently there is no standard way to find a service document. There  
is a well understood ways for finding atom feeds from html pages,  
using a link relation. Atom xml aware processors are much more likely  
to be also atom APP processors than plain html/xhtml processors are,  
so it makes sense to place this information in a feed so that once  
this feed is found the service document can easily be found too.

== Proposal ==

add the following

[[
11.3 The "service" Link Relation

   This specification adds the value "service" to the Atom Registry  
of Link Relations (see section 7.1 of [RFC4287]). The value of  
"service" specifies that the value of the href attribute is a service  
document somehow related to the containing element.  The "type"  
attribute for a link relation is understood to be 'application/ 
atomserv+xml' if not specified.
]]


== Impacts ==

None. Should make it easier to find service documents, when implemented.



Henry

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