On 24/5/08 2:35 AM, "Antone Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Brian Smith wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> "Distancing" future service document formats from
> application/atomsvc+xml documents is link/@type's job, not link/@rel's.
> That's what link/@type is for, and it's perfectly capable of expressing
> the distinction. I see no benefit in, nor any reason to limit the scope
> of the service link relation.

+1

use @type to distinguish format of document, @rel to distinguish role of
document.

e.

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