Jon Knight wrote:
> Unless of course the event is something like an IRC or MBONE session and
> you can supply a URL to take you straight into the event. In that case
> the object that the URL is pointing to is the event itself, not something
> describing the event.
I don't agree with this statement - an *event* is something that *happens*. IRC has
channels - which are a source of continual "noise". An event starts, stops and is
gone.
Certainly, you can advertise an event in advance (publish a URL for an IRC channel
saying "be there at 6pm Tuesday 8 September UTC"), otherwise you'd never ever get
10,000 people to attend a cricket match (for example). But the Melbourne Cricket
Ground isn't an event - it's a venue. So too, an IRC channel is a venue, not an
event.
In my opinion, the article with the URL and date/time for the IRC event would be
DC.Type=text.promotion, rather than DC.Type=event.authority.
Just my humble opinion,
-Alex Satrapa
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