http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=818
- James Steven Lees wrote: > James Snell wrote: > >> 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. > > It would be great to hear about those issues. For what it's worth, we > released our "v1" spec of SSE today. (Not to say that there isn't room for > more discussion.) We also renamed it to "FeedSync", hoping that name might be > a little easier to remember/spell/etc. The new spec is on > http://feedsync.org/spec/. > >> 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. > > I definitely agree. We considered a separate spec for tombstones that was > independent of the other sync extensions. It didn't seem worth it given the > benefit of having all of the sync-related extensions in a single, coherent > spec. If you want spam control, chances are pretty good you want one-way > sync, and at that point you want more than just tombstones. > > Steven >
