--- Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>That's fine. It is often good practice to leave
> >>aspects of a spec
> >>undefined. What's not OK is to "clarify" them
> >>without revving the spec.
>
> I'm going to assume you agree with me. I guess?
I wonder where you got that idea?
No public standards body I am aware of isn't guilty of
this today. The IETF (which Atom will be published
under) has a particularly nasty habit of not even
bothering to update specs at all which is a LOT WORSE
than updating them without revving the spec.
How to deal with errata to specs is a problem that no
one has really figured out how to solve yet. Remove
the log from your own eye and all that...
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