On Feb 2, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Walter Underwood wrote:
On the other hand, the original plan was to publish both specs at the same time, which I still think is a good idea.
I don't. I think that if the format depends on the protocol, that's a *bug*, because I'm quite sure that a nice minimal clean general-purpose vocabulary like Atom will find a wide range of applications in areas that we haven't begun to think of, that couldn't care less about publishing protocols. So it would be actively harmful if the format had a dependency on the protocol.
The reverse is not true, it's OK for the protocol to depend on the format.
Finally, I think the group needs to get the format signed, sealed and delivered so that we can focus our energies on getting the protocol right. -Tim
