Dear Ray,
I would like to suggest the intensive use of RDFa [1], as much as
possible, coupled to HTML code of the new IETF Website (as a first
step). This will allow the semantic interpretation (by a program) of the
Website. Thus we will have the following additional features:
i. Improve integration between IETF people by the possibility of
implementing mechanisms as or similar to the FOAF (Friend Of A Friend), [2];
ii. Automatic interpretation (in near future) of what is happening in
the various WGs and how documents are evolving;
iii. Facilitate future incursions, also intensively, on change the
format of existing data repositories into semantic repositories;
iv. Promote the creation a repository of a common vocabulary (or terms)
to the IETF, [3], to be used (also) in addition to the protocols and
mechanisms that use standards formulated by the IETF. An example, often
used as a namespace in many applications, can be viewed at [4];
v. Many others...
In summary, the suggestion implements the ideas initially proposed by
Tim Berners-Lee, [5], and other related references.
References:
[1]. RDFa 1.1 Primer - Second Edition =>
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
[2]. FOAF Vocabulary Specification 0.99 => http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/
[3]. Vocabularies (W3C) => http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ontology
[4]. Dublin Core Metadata Iniciative => http://dublincore.org/
[5]. Linked data - design issues =>
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
[]s, Julião