xhtml friends network

[groovewonder]

Have any of you techies heard of this? I found out about it today from Eric Meyer's homepage http://www.meyerweb.com. Just wanted to see if any of the IT folk in here had any comments. I'm wondering if it's worth the extra markup.

xhtml friends network (xfn) http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/

[Cubed]

Nope, sorry.

If this is something really special they will submit it as a W3C recommendation.

In essence, anyone can make a W3C recommendation - they are subject to peer review and the process has been good at discerning wannabe kudos-motivated developers from the infrastructure-potential ideas.

This is not one of them. It's a natty (I've chosen that word carefully) use of XML tags to do something novel but not required or even unique. There's no indication of how and why this should be implemented. Which is almost as bad as a good idea implemented badly.

[groovewonder]

With Tantek Celik and Eric Meyer as authors, I hardly think this will just fade away as a novelty. Its sole purpose is for blogs, but it is interesting.