RESTful Live Contacts for Internet-scale social networking
am 21.06.2007 von Obiter Dictum
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for folks who care about RESTful web services. Dare Obasanjo kicked things off with a couple of items about the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and Google’s use of it for its GData project. Tim Bray bristled at Dare’s characterization of APP, and it looked like we were headed for another summer syndication flamefest. (Why do those always happen in June?) When the Web3S protocol — not the Atom Publishing Protocol — was revealed as the proposed mechanism for granting read/write access to the half-billion Hotmail contacts, Messenger buddies, and Spaces friends that comprise the Live Contacts database, I was sure it’d turn into a flamefest.
But it didn’t. And now that things have settled down a bit, I’d like to note two points that may interest the majority of folks who don’t follow the saga of RESTful web services.
First, there’s the role of the blogosphere. I’ve often talked about how the interplay of voices in the technical blogosophere models a style of professional collaboration that I expect will someday prevail more broadly. We see that happening here. Sam Ruby usefully asks whether another protocol proposed by Microsoft, SSE, might play a role in contact synchronization. Tim Bray usefully analyzes the Web3S spec and offers some excellent advice, in particular:
Get yourself a test suite! APP has already been helped by the existence of code from Joe Gregorio, me, and others. Test suites matter way more than specs, in the big picture.
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