Re: Informational vs. standards-track (Was: Re: Last Call: 'Atom Threading Extensions' to Proposed Standard (draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread))

[James M Snell]

Excellent, thank you.

John Panzer wrote:
> Experience report:  Our implementation of comments for AOL blogs 
> includes the count information in a proprietary extension
> (aj:commentCount), precisely because we need the information for UI
> purposes.  We've found it useful and we'd like to use a more standard
> extension to help enable interoperability.
> The one issue we've had with it was with a partner who used a checksum
> on the retrieved file to determine if something has 'changed' in the
> feed.  We explained how they can use the update timestamps for that
> purpose and everything was solved.
> 
> I don't see any issue with these attributes.
> 
> -John
>