Antone Roundy wrote:
> 
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:47 PM, James M Snell wrote:
> 
>>> Err, are you forgetting atom:category? Doesn’t that satisfy all
>>> your wants *and* more? It has a URI, a term and a human-readable
>>> label.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>> I dunno, that's why I was asking ;-)
>>
>> atom:category works well for categorizing entries, but does it  really
>> tell us what the entry is about?  For instance, suppose that  I want
>> to indicate that an entry is about http://www.ibm.com and  file that
>> in a category called technology?  The categorization of  the entry is
>> different than the subject of the entry.. tho both are  definitely
>> related.
> 
> 
> Why don't we define link/@rel="about" for pointing to a specific 
> internet resource that an entry is about (a little more specific than 
> the general case of rel="related").  I know we discussed this before 
> and in the chaos of trying to hammer the spec out, didn't do it, but  I
> still think it's a good idea.

-1 to about. The proposal here is saying the feed is subject to the link
not that the link is the object of the feed. About can mean either.

cheers
Bill

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