On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:37:28 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone tell me where to look to find out why everything has "Pace" > appended to the front of it (PaceDateModified, PaceUpdatedDefinition, > etcetera)? As a newcomer to the list, I haven't been able to relate the > word to Atom (yet).
It's just a convention for proposals, initiated by Sam. He might care to comment further, but I think I can safely say they (should) have two significant characteristics: each covers a single issue (often corresponding to a single XML element) ; each includes camera-ready text for inclusion in the specs. I forget Sam's original explanation for the word (collective unconscious?) but I think a suitable /a posteriori/ derivation would be from the Latin "pace tua" - with your consent. Following focussed discussion on list initiated by the chair (see [1]), the proposals will eventually either "vade in pace" - go in peace, or "requiescat in pace" - RIP. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/AtomPubIssuesList -- http://dannyayers.com
