On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In 6.1, it says "Hubs MUST ignore verify mode keywords that they do
> not understand."  This is good, but I suspect that the protocol would
> benefit by extending this.  Whenever you have one of the requests and
> there's a field in it you don't understand, hubs and subscribers MUST
> ignore.  Might want to steal the language from
> http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html#extending_atom
>
> This buys you all sorts of room for organic growth & versioning down
> the road, people can put in new fields without breaking old clients.

Good call. I've filed this issue to incorporate this into the spec:
http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/issues/detail?id=93

Thanks,

-Brett

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