At 9:38 AM -0800 2/7/05, Walter Underwood wrote:
I was holding this back as out of scope and too close to the deadline, but now that we are talking about sliding windows and delayed, cached state, it is quite relevant.
Sorry, this is too late for consideration for the Atom core. Even if you had turned it in on time, I would give it a -1 for not being essential to the core for the Atom format. Atom will be distributed over many protocols, HTTP being one of them. Having said that, I think this would be an excellent extension, one that might keep the folks who don't understand HTTP scalability but feel free to talk about it anyway at bay.
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
