James M Snell wrote:
The simple answer is that not everything I may want to reply too will
have an ID I can reference. Suppose that what I'm responding to is an
item in an RSS feed that does not contain a guid element? All I have
to go off of is the URL of the RSS feed or the RSS item's link
element... neither of which are actual ID's.
From your draft's abstract:
This memo presents a mechanism that allows feeds publishers to
express threading relationships between entries and feeds.
And from your draft's introduction section:
This document specifies a mechanism that allows the expression of
threaded discussions within the Atom Syndication Format ([I-D.ietf-
atompub-format]).
As I read it, your proposal is about enabling threading in Atom to allow
aggregators to present entries in a tree form.
If you want to comment on a non-Atom resource, create a new link/@rel
value or use a [EMAIL PROTECTED]"related"] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]"via"] or something
like that.
So a strong +1 to making the id REQUIRED.
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Thomas Broyer
