[OT]: Who owns the robots.txt "protocol?"

[Scott Elcomb]

On 7/31/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:49:52PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> > Did I miss something, or is it just in the wording?
> Well I think robots.txt was designed to support new tags, which other
> robots are allowed to ignore if they don't understand, so probably
> nothing wrong with google saying 'our bot now supports these additional
> tags'.

I'm going to write this one off as a wording / lack-of-sleep issue.  :-)

I can't help myself thinking about M$ anytime some company comes along
and says "We've added this to the protocol!"  If it's a standards
body, ok.  But if it's "just a corporation..."

I guess I see Protocol's as being different from the bots that use them.  ;-)

In any event, thanks for your response!  Take care,
- Scott.

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