Here's a scenario: Bob wrote an article, and published it as an Atom document.
Alice published a translation of the article, and Bob wish to include a link in his Atom document to point to Alice's translation. <entry> <title>The Article Title</title> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="http://example.org/123"; /> <author><name>Bob</name></author> <content> .. (content) .. </content> </entry> The question is, when the link is added (as above), does it imply that Bob owns the translated document? (which is not true, in this case) ---- This raises a more general question: how does metadata like * authorship: <contributor>, <author> * rights: <rights> * licensing: <link rel="license"> (in RFC4946) apply to documents pointed by <link rel=""> and <content src=""> ? IMHO, the assumption is, when these metadata appear in an Atom document, they apply to the data in that document, and do not apply to other documents pointed by atom:link. In other words, I assume atom:link is "normal link" [1] and authors have freedom to link to any document on Web. But, what about atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkLaw.html#Normal ---- I strongly feel that it's important to make this clear to avoid confusion and uncertainly. For example: Quoted from http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg19607.html > > Linking to the RFC as an alternate representation of the entry suggests > that the entry and the RFC issue from the same source. (ie. if the > entry appears in a feed that lists me as an author it implies that > RFC4287 was written by me) Thanks, -- Teo Hui Ming
