Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
In the Jabber community we've been looking at defining links to, say, a chat room where a post could be discussed. Therefore we've been thinking about defining rel="discuss". The value of such a link could point to an XMPP-based or SIP-based groupchat room, an IRC channel, an email discussion list, a web forum, or other such venue. Does this seem reasonable?
Do you have a specific use case in mind? I understand that you have a link that you want to publish, but you can already do that in Atom. For example a related link seems like a fairly good fit to me:
<link rel="related" title="Discuss on IRC" href="irc://example.org/#atom" />The fact you've chosen not to use an existing link relation suggests that you expect a client to do something special with these "discuss" links. What did you have in mind? Why would a client need to be able to differentiate a "discuss" link from any other link type?
Regards James