| Excerpt from: Think Outside the Feed |
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| July 28, 2004 | | We have the machinery to take a snapshot of an RSS feed... but what benefit could this provide? | Is this an important capability, or a feature looking for a problem? I think compliance issues will eventually emerge with RSS, but I'm out of touch with the specific types of services where rigid requirements exist for information sets that change frequently. But we have the ability to snapshot a feed at regular intervals, wrap it in a signed package, and persist it in a secure (even encrypted) database. We can also capture meta-data about each version such as which links in the feed were broken, how many items there are, the size of each item, date information, and other factors important to a compliance test. | | |
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