Here is what ~ford proposed on the tilde-ops list:
What if everyone had a little thing called tilde.json with the data from pfhawkins list on their servers in the root apache dir, so tilde.club/tilde.json
{'name':'tilde.club', 'url':'http://tilde.club', 'signup_url':'http://tilde.club/signup', 'no_users':200, 'want_users':true, 'admin_email':ford@ftrain.com, 'description':etc etc}and so once every 20 minutes or so, get all of that JSON, make a table, arrange the table based on whats inside
oh god i just proposed the semantic web i’m so sorry
and here’s something implemented at squiggle.city building on that…
http://squiggle.city/tilde.json
and here’s what I said on IRC:
23:00 < englishm> planting a seed: ppl on the tilde-ops list want to standardize how boxes can find out info about each other 23:00 < englishm> specifically, each box seems to have locally implemented something like silentbicycle's homepage list, but all different 23:01 < englishm> there is a desire to have a standard JSON format for exposing that info 23:02 < englishm> ~ford has suggested a format already (which i can copy here later) 23:02 < englishm> but soneone else asked if maybe protocol.club eould be interested in writing an RFC for it 23:02 < englishm> *someone 23:03 < englishm> I think it seems like it might be a good excercise 23:04 < englishm> I've never participated in drafting a document like an RFC before, but we should have most of the necessary tooling available 23:04 < englishm> are there any protocol.club-ers with experience drafting such documents who might be willing to guide the rest of us through the process?