Mark Nottingham wrote: > > > What's the current state of proposals for and interest in what we called > tombstones a while back? >
There really isn't a current status. Msft SSE extensions come the closest but there are some definite issues that I personally think would need to be resolved. What I personally would like to see is an evolved form of SSE produced on the standards track by a WG. Tombstones would be covered as part of that activity. > I'm seeing use cases for managing spam; e.g., if your site accepts > user-generated-content, and you make a feed of it available, it would be > nice to be able to be able to have spam control reflected not only on > the Web page, and in the feed, but also in aggregators' views of the data. > We have use cases for offline synchronization, bidirectional sync, seeding search engines, spam control, more efficient subscription models (e.g. just give me the changes since the last time I checked), and so on. After exploring the issue, I strongly believe a single, common approach would be ideal. - James > Cheers, > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > >
