Eric Scheid wrote:
The whole purpose of Atompub Service Documents is to enable a client to discover the capabilities and locations of the available collections. It's reasonably possible that this information could be made available in different formats. The *relationship* to documents describing the capabilities and locations of the available collections is the same, regardless of whether the format of the document is an Atompub Service Document.
I agree that other formats are possible (and unlikely to be worse), but I don't see the harm in reserving rel='service' for AtomPub service documents. If you come up with a better mechanism/format for doing service discovery then it would be better to distance it from the application/atomsvc+xml document type by using different link relations.
- Brian
