The level of traffic in recent days have been ferocious, and reading
through it, we observe the WG has consensus on changing the format
draft in a surprisingly small number of areas. Here they are:
1. The restriction that atom:author can appear only once is removed.
2. The draft should include an explanation that if entry/author is
absent, then all entry/source/author entries apply if there are any,
otherwise all feed/author entries apply.
3. Change to previous consensus call. The phrase that begins "If
multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in an
Atom Feed document, they describe the same empty..." loses the
language about how software MUST treat them as such.
4. atom:id is a compulsory child of atom:feed (or did we already say
that?)
5. rework the last paragraph of 4.1.3.2. First of all, the
description involving "text/" and "+xml" needs fixing per Thomas
Broyer's work (see http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/
msg15444.html), and second, the SHOULD is gone, see http://
www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15412.html
Have I missed any? Yes, there has been high-volume debate on several
other issues; but have there been any other outcomes where we can
reasonably claim consensus exists? -Tim
