On 16/10/05 6:54 AM, "Mark Nottingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Can you walk me through a use case where this would be desirable? >>> E.g. what would the subscription URI be, would any of the entries >>> be updated, and how if so? In what scenario would having a closed >>> set feed be useful? >>> >> An archive for a blog that is no longer being updated? An archive >> of entries pertaining to an event with a fixed endpoint? A >> discussion forum that has been closed. > > How are implementations supposed to use this information? Stop > polling the feed? Consider its items immutable? I'm concerned if > something so innocent-looking as "last" has these sorts of implications. perhaps a better example would then be a feed of search results, which at any time of query is a finite and closed set, and also designed to be paged through. e.
