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Not always online capsules

Chris McGowan cmcgowan9990 at gmail.com

Wed Sep 22 13:51:52 BST 2021

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I think it's better to use a free-form text instead of trying to come up

with a strict syntax to communicate when the capsule should be online.

I'm not convinced it is worth for robots to know these schedules, given

all the complex schedule one can have (and the rabbit hole for the

"perfect" syntax that covers all possible situations is pretty deep.)

Right, the <schedule> and <contact details> in my example were simply meant to be placeholders for a natural language description of both of those things, not some formal specification that'd be machine readable.

While being machine readable might be nice, I think the least effort for the most reward implementation is just a natural language message the capsule host can stick in their DNS and clients can fetch and display as is.