This is not restricted to HTTP. It uses HTTP's cache age algorithms,
because they are very carefully designed and have proven effective.
But it can be used for any local copy in an Atom client.
wunder
--On Monday, February 07, 2005 10:08:48 AM -0800 Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
--
Walter Underwood
Principal Architect
Verity Ultraseek
