Hi,
(I raised this when reviewing draft 05 already, but I think this topic deserves it's own thread)
Currently, the format spec has a normative reference to the protocol spec (and also defines elements for the service URIs, for instance, atom:introspection).
As far as I understand the IETF publication process, this means that draft-ietf-atompub-format can't be published until the protocol spec is ready as well.
One alternative I'd like to mention is to remove all references to the protocol spec from the document spec including the service URI definitions, and to move the latter as extension elements into the protocol spec. This would essentially de-couple the publication process.
Thoughts?
Best regards, Julian
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