RE: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-08 Thread Martin Duerst
At 00:12 05/05/07, Bob Wyman wrote: Right. We have abstract feeds and entries and we have concrete feeds and entries. The abstract feed is the actual stream of entries and updates to entries as they are created over time. Feed documents are concrete snapshots of this stream or abstract feed of

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 8, 2005, at 06:30, Walter Underwood wrote: White space is not particularly meaningful in some of these languages, so we cannot expect them to suddenly pay attention to that just so they can use Atom. Why not? We expect them not no insert other random characters there. What do the same

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-08 Thread Henry Story
If I can summarize your point: You prefer applications that only allow one entry with the same id per feed. Those that don't should use a different format that has not been defined yet. This seems little weak an argument to me. I think we should permit certain types of communication to

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 8, 2005, 9:28:08 AM, you wrote: Robin: In my opinion, the only place an atom:copyright should appear is at the feed level, as an assertion of ownership of the feed document itself. [Disregarding the name and legal meaning of the element...] What about entry documents though,

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Robin Cover
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Roger B. wrote: A rights description might talk about trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks, and so forth: different from copyright. Isolating this statement creates a misrepresentation of the argument for using the label rights. The quoted statement is a

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Graham
Robin, are we actually talking about any rights here beyond the rights to copy (which includes display and redistribution)? The quoted statement is a reminder that copyright is only ONE kind of right typically treated as intellectual property right. What other rights can be associated with

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Tim Bray
On May 7, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Robin Cover wrote: The publication of a new Implementation Guideline by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compels me to suggest once again [1], as Norm Walsh [2], Bob Wyman [3], and others have done before, that the name 'atom:rights' would be better than the (current)

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Scheid
On 9/5/05 12:18 AM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other rights can be associated with content? Robin, Tim: would atom:rights be the appropriate container for declarations like foo is a trademark of (some third party), used with permission e.

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Scheid
On 9/5/05 12:18 AM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other rights can be associated with content? Habeas Corpus? The right to bear arms? trademarks? moral rights (not just attribution)? e.

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Graham
On 8 May 2005, at 5:50 pm, Eric Scheid wrote: would atom:rights be the appropriate container for declarations like foo is a trademark of (some third party), used with permission How about an atom:footnote element? The biggest flaw in atom:rights and atom:copyright is the absence of any hint

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/8/05, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about an atom:footnote element? The biggest flaw in atom:rights and atom:copyright is the absence of any hint for either publishers or consumers as to how it's meant to be displayed. That's a feature. I don't see any point in arguing over

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Scheid
On 9/5/05 3:30 AM, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people really insist on providing more encouragement to the rights management folk in the Atom spec, then let us *please* include something like the following in the specification in order to discourage people from believing that

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Graham
On 8 May 2005, at 6:14 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: That's a feature. The thing is, I have no idea where to put the atom:copyright content. It might be a short (C)2005 Robert Sayre like you see at the bottom of every web page, or it might be a shouty FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY thing intended to be

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread James Aylett
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:08:43AM -0700, Tim Bray wrote: Speaking as a publisher, Robin's proposal [atom:rights not atom:copyright] meets my needs better then what we have now. I'm +1 on atom:rights instead of atom:copyright. atom:copyright strikes me as very limited in scope, and I agree

Re: entry definition

2005-05-08 Thread Henry Story
On 8 May 2005, at 16:35, Graham wrote: On 7 May 2005, at 1:35 pm, Henry Story wrote: My definition is making me wonder whether I should not in fact accept that link alternate is a MUST. Not really. There's no reason why the resource an Atom entry describes has to be visible online anywhere

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 8, 2005, at 19:45, Eric Scheid wrote: On 9/5/05 12:18 AM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other rights can be associated with content? Habeas Corpus? The right to bear arms? trademarks? If your lawyer tells you that you need to recite some legalese about trademarks, wouldn't (s)he

Re: Blogged and RDF

2005-05-08 Thread Henry Story
On 8 May 2005, at 21:43, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: back home and looking at the code: could you give me a hint on how to get the instances of AtomContent given a com.sun.labs.tools.blog.Blog or org.openrdf.model.Graph (I was looking at the SesameRDFFactory). Well you can get all instances of a

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/8/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, let me say that I am a *very* strong supporter of intellectual property rights... I have always made my income by selling my intellectual property and I consider the anti-IPR proponents and Free Software evangelists to be no better

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-08 Thread David Nesting
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:18:23PM +0100, Graham wrote: What other rights can be associated with content? I intend on utilizing and publishing feeds internal to my company. While the information in the feed may be considered copyrighted, it's really my company's information classification