zengun

I find it a bit disappointing that Hixie’s line about Pingback being more transparent than TrackBack was mainly the only thing that Ben Trott commented on.
And that Mark Pilgrim linked to Hixie’s announcement of Pingback 1.0 instead of linking to the specification itself.

After RSS 1.0 versus 2.0, must we see a debate “TrackBack vs Pingback” ?
One thing certain in my opinion, is that auto-discovery from embedded RDF metadata as proposed by Ben is more of a temporary hack than a durable solution: if the next day MT changes its auto-discovery method, making embedded RDF metadata useless, people using new versions of MT would stop embedding RDF and people using the older version of MT that needs embedded RDF would find themselves unable to trackback posts made on new-MT weblogs.
That’s not talking about the very way trackback clients work: appending arguments to a trackback URL is far from being as efficiently simple as doing an XMLRPC call…