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Why do business people try to push business standards as technical solutions? That's not what standards are for, they are for technical problems. It looks like

Why do business people try to push business standards as technical solutions? That's not what standards are for, they are for technical problems. It looks like DRM to me: a technical solution to a social problem or a broken business model. TL;DR: there are existing solutions, micro-formats for example.

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RKearney 14y ago
But then how will fesja be able to tell everyone "Hey, I created a web standard! /flex" You're right. No research was done. Author just threw information that he thought was important into a text file and called it a day. RFC 5785 says to put the file into the .well-known folder, the author only thought about United States addresses when making this, and as you stated the problem has already been addressed.
- fesja 14y ago
  I don't know what's the correct word for this, and even if it will arrive somewhere. The only thing I know is that there is a problem local businesses and website providers have. And there isn't an efficient solution yet. I've propose a solution so we can discuss it and see if it makes sense. That's where we are now. About going international, I'm from Spain, so of course I will be the first one interested in having an international "standard". People are already giving suggestions in github!
  - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
    How are microformats not an efficient solution? Looks like you made a worse version of hcard, http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard. Adding a frontend to keep a hcard updated would be what makes this more accessible for business workers/managers. I've used this on one site for several (six??) years or so, examples at http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-reviewed http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-reviewed.
    - fesja 14y ago
      If i have to make a plugin out of the vCard RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6350.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6350.txt), i kill myself before ;)

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RKearney 14y ago

But then how will fesja be able to tell everyone "Hey, I created a web standard! /flex" You're right. No research was done. Author just threw information that he thought was important into a text file and called it a day. RFC 5785 says to put the file into the .well-known folder, the author only thought about United States addresses when making this, and as you stated the problem has already been addressed.

fesja 14y ago
I don't know what's the correct word for this, and even if it will arrive somewhere. The only thing I know is that there is a problem local businesses and website providers have. And there isn't an efficient solution yet. I've propose a solution so we can discuss it and see if it makes sense. That's where we are now. About going international, I'm from Spain, so of course I will be the first one interested in having an international "standard". People are already giving suggestions in github!
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  How are microformats not an efficient solution? Looks like you made a worse version of hcard, http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard. Adding a frontend to keep a hcard updated would be what makes this more accessible for business workers/managers. I've used this on one site for several (six??) years or so, examples at http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-reviewed http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild-reviewed.
  - fesja 14y ago
    If i have to make a plugin out of the vCard RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6350.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6350.txt), i kill myself before ;)