Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread Brett Lindsley
One reason for title only feeds is to address bandwidth limited devices. The server I set up provides the same feed in two different formats - one title only and the other with title/summary/etc. The end client can decide which feed it wants to work with based on its capabilities; however, both

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread James Tauber
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:35:21 -0400, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: While I agree that the implications of a decision to omit a summary need to be understood and carefully weighed by the feed author, I don't believe that mandating the summary element actually achieves this So.. can we

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-27 12:45]: So.. can we agree on SHOULD? +1. My previous tentative +1 for MAY is hereby withdrawn. Regards, -- Aristotle

IPTC News Metadata Framework Requirements specification issued for comment

2005-04-27 Thread Laurent Le Meur
Atomes, One of the goal of the Atom initiative is to obtain a simple but powerful way to handle metadata. The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) studies the same kind of problems in the domain of professional news-worthy information, and we feel that the Atom WG could be

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread Brett Lindsley
I used title=titles and title=full to indicate the varients in the feed discovery while maintaining compliance with the current spec. The user must select which feed to use. One assumption I am making is that the updated time for both the title only and the full entry are the same. If I have a

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/4/05 12:10 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: feed link rel=variants ... /!--this is a link to a file listing variants-- link rel=complete ... /!--this is a link to a variant which contains all of the elements found in any variant--it's conceivable that no such variant may

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, April 27, 2005, at 08:53 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: why not feed link rel=alternate type=application/xml+atom title=minimal/ link rel=alternate type=application/xml+atom title=authoritative/ link rel=alternate type=application/xml+atom title=summmaries/ ... /feed and

PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bob Wyman
I know that nobody seems to like this issue However, I have explained on numerous occasions that the existing prohibition against duplicate ids in a feed simply cannot be supported by PubSub or any other feed aggregator. The problem is, once again, that prohibiting duplicate ids provides

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bill de hÓra
Bob Wyman wrote: I know that nobody seems to like this issue However, I have explained on numerous occasions that the existing prohibition against duplicate ids in a feed simply cannot be supported by PubSub or any other feed aggregator. The problem is, once again, that prohibiting duplicate

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Sam Ruby
Bob Wyman wrote: I know that nobody seems to like this issue However, I have explained on numerous occasions that the existing prohibition against duplicate ids in a feed simply cannot be supported by PubSub or any other feed aggregator. The problem is, once again, that prohibiting duplicate

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:48 AM -0400 4/27/05, Bob Wyman wrote: I know that nobody seems to like this issueŠ However, I have explained on numerous occasions that the existing prohibition against duplicate ids in a feed simply cannot be supported by PubSub or any other feed aggregator. The problem is, once again,

RE: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bob Wyman
Bill de hÓra wrote: What will prevent people overwriting the atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'self'] links as well as the id? Now you see why Graham Park's proposal is a compromise. It improves things but doesn't provide a definitive solution to all cases. It means a great deal more processing

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/4/05 2:09 AM, Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B- the simple solution which simply allows entries with duplicate ids +1

Re: On SHOULD, MUST, and semantics

2005-04-27 Thread Graham
On 27 Apr 2005, at 5:28 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote: Proposal for thinking about: to simplify the spec, atom:summary should either be a MUST in all cases or a MAY in all cases. If it is just semantic like atom:category, it should be a MAY. If it is inherently valuable like atom:title, it should be a

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Graham
On 27 Apr 2005, at 6:00 pm, Bob Wyman wrote: Paul Hoffman wrote: Question (not a disagreement): Why wouldn't the later entry be dropped instead of the first one being flushed? The order of entries is not significant for the subject attack. The reason is that it is possible for an attacker to

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Thomas Broyer
Henry Story wrote: I think we should vote on the two solutions: A- the compromise solution you propose B- the simple solution which simply allows entries with duplicate ids C- No change My preference is clearly B then A, and certainly not C. Same for me. As far as I am concerned there

Re: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Robert Sayre
On 4/27/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the absence of evidence that the proposed change will result in damage or interoperability problems, I think the spec must change. A security note is not sufficient. OK, we have two errors to balance here. One of them is the text we

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread Thomas Broyer
Walter Underwood wrote: I'm not being entirely silly here. We could distinguish between I am not providing a summary (no element) and the summary is void (empty summary). +1 This means I agree with Rob that these [1] three entries mean different things. [1]

Re: On SHOULD, MUST, and semantics

2005-04-27 Thread Mark Nottingham
Well said, Paul; this articulates the reasons for a profiling mechanism much more effectively than I ever did. Cheers, On Apr 27, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: A few brief notes for the WG to chew on. - Literal interpretation of 2119 for a document format such as Atom would make nearly

Re: On SHOULD, MUST, and semantics

2005-04-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 6:47 PM +0100 4/27/05, Graham wrote: On 27 Apr 2005, at 5:28 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote: Proposal for thinking about: to simplify the spec, atom:summary should either be a MUST in all cases or a MAY in all cases. If it is just semantic like atom:category, it should be a MAY. If it is inherently

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-04-27 Thread Andreas Sewe
Thomas Broyer wrote: Antone Roundy wrote: This raises a few questions: 1) How does one indicate the existence of variants? [EMAIL PROTECTED]alternate or using a custom (read: extension) relations or using extension elements. See also my comments below on 3). I'll just stop lurking for a minute

RE: PubSub CAN NOT support Atom with existing no duplicate id constraint

2005-04-27 Thread Bob Wyman
Antone Roundy wrote: If PubSub is subscribed to the feed pointed to by atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'self'], then can't you simply drop any entries claiming to be from that feed but found at a different URI? You'll be getting those entries from the source if they're legitimate, so is there any

Re: On SHOULD, MUST, and semantics

2005-04-27 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, April 27, 2005, at 05:11 PM, Graham wrote: On 27 Apr 2005, at 10:31 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: My opinion is that ~10 WG members are currently clearly stating their belief that summary/content are optional. You should make clear that most of those people supported a misleading Pace