Luke Arno wrote:

> I don't disagree with your points (except your
> characterization of microformats but this is not the
> list for that). I think we are just looking at the APP
> as having different goals.

Microformat snarkiness withdrawn. My bad.


> You call them "protocol directives". What protocol? What
> directives of APP need to go in a box?

The current directives belong to APP. I can live with "control
directive" or "directive".


> I guess the disconnect in our mental models here is this:
> APP as just a publishing protocol or APP as distributed
> applications protocol. I think APP will be an even better
> substrate for application protocols to build on to if we
> stay out of their processing models and sticks to the
> humble task of pushing entries around.

If we had a uniform structure and/or processing model acting as a
substrate, fine. We don't. So I'm unconvinced this won't turn out to be
an unholy crapfest of special cases as new directives/controls/whatnot
come on board. Feels like building on sand. Actually, I know what it
feels like - it feels like an Ant script.

(I fully appreciate this is a elegantist what-if argument and if I turn
out to be wrong, great)

cheers
Bill

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