[My apologies if this ends up on the list twice...] If we must have atom:updated, then the new wording is about as good as it can get.
However, I would much prefer if we used distinct mechanisms to indicate the time of the change and the significance of the change. Let's stop overloading this date value as I proposed in: http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg11110.html bob wyman
