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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?
