Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Hence, there was no intent to keep revising the format, at least barring unforeseen and seemingly unlikely circumstances.
Is RFC 4287 still expected to progress to a Draft Standard at some point in the future? And, if so, would you expect it to make that progression in its current form with no revisions?
I've always wondered how that could be achieved with the current version of the spec. Where would you find two interoperable implementations that included *all* of the options and features in the specification?
Do libraries count? Say if you had an Atom parsing library that could parse any form of Atom, without necessarily doing anything with the parsed data. If yes, would a generic XML parser count? If not, what's the distinction?
Similarly for an Atom server: would a library that was capable of producing every form of Atom count as an implementation even if there was no actual server product that made full use of that library? If so, how would you go about testing its conformance?
How does the IETF usually go about establishing conforming implementations of a protocol? Curious minds what to know.
Regards James
