Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Sam Ruby
Antone Roundy wrote: +1. ...oh, and the wording I just suggested for part of PaceTextShouldBeProvided would depend on this also being accepted. With deep regret, I'm going to express my -1 on PaceOptionalSummary. Not because I object to the text expressed in the proposal section. In fact, I

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Graham
On 9 May 2005, at 1:19 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: I also feel the need to express deep dismay at the way that author of PaceOptionalSummary has been pursuing a scorched earth approach whereby everybody who expresses an opinion to the contrary is viciously attacked for doing so. I believe that this

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

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Broyer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-03 19:35]: This means type=text content is a single paragraph of text. If you need paragraphs, lists or any other structural formatting, you have to use type=html or type=xhtml with the appropriate content. Or type=text/plain, Id

PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Bill de hÓra
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceNoAlternateForFeed == Abstract == Allow publishers to indicate when they have no alternate link for a feed. Author: BillDehora == Status == Open Incept: 2005-05-09 Written against: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-08.txt ==

PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread Antone Roundy
The pace adds this under atom:feed: atom:feed elements that contain no child atom:id element MUST contain an atom:link element with a relation of self. That could just as well be: atom:feed elements that contain no child atom:link element with a relation of self

Re: PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Julian Reschke
Bill de hÓra wrote: ... {{{ o atom:feed elements MUST contain either and cannot contain both - one or more atom:link elements with a relation of alternate. - one and only one atom:link element with a relation of no-alternate. }}} ... link rel=no-alternate / ... Is this meant to

Re: PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Julian Reschke
Bill de hÓra wrote: ... Currently you MUST provide an alternate feed link. People are saying they don't always have one to provide, which encourages garbage out. That satisfying a spec constraint for its own sake. This addition allows someone to say there is no alternate for this link. It's

Re: PaceTextShouldBeProvided

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/6/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1. I agree with Robert; it conflicts with PaceOptionalSummary and I doubt it would exist if PaceOptionalSummary had not make the cut. -1 as well. Doesn't solve a technical problem. It's just gamesmanship. Robert Sayre

Which is the preferred feed?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Wyman
Some sites are beginning to serve their feeds via intermediaries like FeedBurner. They are doing this, in part, to make it easier for them to get better statistics on their use of the feeds, to off-load bandwidth requirements, or to take advantage of the advertising insertion and

Re: Which is the preferred feed?

2005-05-09 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Bob Wyman wrote: Some sites are beginning to serve their feeds via intermediaries like FeedBurner. They are doing this, in part, to make it easier for them to get better statistics on their use of the feeds, to off-load bandwidth requirements, or to take advantage of the advertising insertion and

Re: PaceOptionalFeedLink

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/6/05, Martin Duerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:50 05/05/06, Sam Ruby wrote: Tim Bray wrote: +1 There are people who want to publish feeds without rel=alternate links. I'm against telling people they can't do something they want to do without strong reasons, as in loss of

Re: Which is the preferred feed?

2005-05-09 Thread Antone Roundy
On Monday, May 9, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: Some sites are beginning to serve their feeds via intermediaries like FeedBurner. They are doing this, in part, to make it easier for them to get better statistics on their use of the feeds, to off-load bandwidth

Re: Which is the preferred feed?

2005-05-09 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Antone Roundy wrote: 302 would result in feed readers (that follow the HTTP spec) continuing to hit the publisher's site every time they checked the feed, and then going to FeedBurner. As it would not be a very large hit of say, 25 to 50 KiB; I guess people can live with that. 2) Not everyone

Re: PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Tim Bray
On May 9, 2005, at 8:13 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: Why can't ve just leave a protocol element out if we don't have information for it??? Because it allows someone to assert there is no alternate link for their feed. That's different from leaving an alternate link out. What observable difference in

RE: Which is the preferred feed?

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Wyman
Anne van Kesteren wrote: Sites could also use a HTTP 302 link on their own site that points to FeedBurner in the end. When FeedBurner dies or when they no longer have desire to use the service, they switch the location of the temporary redirect and all is fine. While 302 is an

On SHOULD

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
Off-list, I've been told some it would help to explain my view that PaceTextShouldBeProvided and PaceOptionalSummary are incompatible. --- First, remember that PaceOptionalSummary does one thing--make content/summary optional. This means that Atom Processors

Re: PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: On May 9, 2005, at 8:13 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: Why can't ve just leave a protocol element out if we don't have information for it??? Because it allows someone to assert there is no alternate link for their feed. That's different from leaving an alternate link out. What

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread Eric Scheid
On 10/5/05 12:50 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't change the Pace, since such a change could conceivably change the opinions of people who've expressed an opinion on it already. But I would be interested to know whether people think this would be an improvement, make it

Re: PaceRenameImageToLogo

2005-05-09 Thread Eric Scheid
On 10/5/05 1:14 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceRenameImageToLogo +1

Fwd: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
Hi Guys! Did you see this email? Did you notice all the questions about the technical basis of your position? Maybe you should answer them. Also, I'm having trouble reconciling your road lying with the assertion that the two proposals are compatible. How can they be if their outcomes are so

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

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least based on the discussion the IESG has been copied on, it doesn't sound like the working group has fully considered this issue. The responses have more of the character of those found from people trying to brush aside an issue than of

Re: the atom:copyright element

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Broyer
Antone Roundy wrote: On Sunday, May 8, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Tim Bray wrote: 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

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Antone Roundy
On Monday, May 9, 2005, at 02:43 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: Did you see this email? Did you notice all the questions about the technical basis of your position? Maybe you should answer them. Also, I'm having trouble reconciling your road lying with the assertion that the two proposals are

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Roger B.
I have no problem with title only feeds. I'm -1 on POS, although I wouldn't describe myself as being positioned in the path of oncoming traffic. Title-only feeds have valid uses, but they're really out of scope for a feed format that only exists because it provides a clearer, cleaner way to

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problem with title only feeds. I myself would be far less likely to subscribe to them--or at least they'd have to have extraordinarily well-written, informative titles for me to subscribe to them in just about all cases--but there

Re: PaceOptionalSummary

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Roger B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problem with title only feeds. I'm -1 on POS, although I wouldn't describe myself as being positioned in the path of oncoming traffic. Title-only feeds have valid uses, but they're really out of scope for a feed format that only

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

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:33 AM -0400 5/9/05, Sam Hartman wrote: My personal opinion as someone who is very shortly going to have to evaluate the atom specification is that you've identified an issue (space and line breaking) for some languages that should be considered. Your proposed solution seems highly

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

2005-05-09 Thread fantasai
Henri Sivonen wrote: 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.

Re: PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Bill de hÓra
Graham wrote: On 9 May 2005, at 6:48 pm, Bill de hÓra wrote: I think this exercise is *critical* for any piece of markup that is going to move from mandatory to optional. Either way, we should pin down spec language around the optionality of alternate feed links, or consciously decide we're

Re: PaceNoAlternateForFeed

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 May 2005, at 6:48 pm, Bill de hÓra wrote: I think this exercise is *critical* for any piece of markup that is going to move from mandatory to optional. Either way, we should pin down spec language around the optionality of alternate feed

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread Antone Roundy
On Monday, May 9, 2005, at 05:05 PM, Graham wrote: On 4 Apr 2005, at 6:59 pm, Antone Roundy wrote: And add this bullet point: * atom:feed elements that contain no child atom:id element MUST contain an atom:link element with a relation of self. rel=self is in no way a substitute for an

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread David Nesting
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:05:22AM +0100, Graham wrote: rel=self is in no way a substitute for an identifier and shouldn't Has anyone considered merging these into one (required) element? The ID can be a URI. The URI need not be resolvable. If the URI is a URL, it SHOULD (MUST?) point to

Re: Which is the preferred feed?

2005-05-09 Thread David Nesting
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:53:14AM -0600, Antone Roundy wrote: 302 would result in feed readers (that follow the HTTP spec) continuing to hit the publisher's site every time they checked the feed, and then going to FeedBurner. I'm not sure how user agents would handle it, but one could

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread Eric Scheid
On 10/5/05 11:12 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rel=self is in no way a substitute for an identifier Why not? the uri can change. e.

extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
I think we should be clearer that new elements in the Atom namespace and unprefixed attributes with parent elements in the Atom namespace can only be added by IETF consensus. Thoughts? Robert Sayre

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread David Nesting
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:52:55AM +1000, Eric Scheid wrote: Why not? the uri can change. URIs don't change; People change them.[1] But yah, things are never that simple. Consequently, ignore my other e-mail in this thread. (And sorry if this is all a re-hash.) David [1]

Re: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

2005-05-09 Thread Eric Scheid
On 10/5/05 11:36 AM, David Nesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rel=self is in no way a substitute for an identifier and shouldn't Has anyone considered merging these into one (required) element? The ID can be a URI. The URI need not be resolvable. If the URI is a URL, it SHOULD (MUST?)

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-09 Thread Tim Bray
On May 9, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: I think we should be clearer that new elements in the Atom namespace and unprefixed attributes with parent elements in the Atom namespace can only be added by IETF consensus. Thoughts? I wonder if there's some standard IETF practice when you define

Atom 1.0?

2005-05-09 Thread Tim Bray
Question: how do we refer to the product of this WG once it has an RFC number? We definitely need some quick, snappy label to refer to that version to distinguish it from Atom 0.3, which is widely enough deployed that it'll be with us for a while. Per WG consensus, an Atom doc has no version

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 7:22 PM -0700 5/9/05, Tim Bray wrote: On May 9, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: I think we should be clearer that new elements in the Atom namespace and unprefixed attributes with parent elements in the Atom namespace can only be added by IETF consensus. Thoughts? I wonder if there's some

Re: Atom 1.0?

2005-05-09 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
Tim Bray wrote: Question: how do we refer to the product of this WG once it has an RFC number? We definitely need some quick, snappy label to refer to that version to distinguish it from Atom 0.3, which is widely enough deployed that it'll be with us for a while. Per WG consensus, an Atom

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fair enough. But can just anyone add stuff to the Atom namespace? If the IESG lets them, yes. We gotta trust the IESG after the WG shuts down. Fortunately, they have earned that trust over time. I am fine with that. I am concerned that the

Re: Atom 1.0?

2005-05-09 Thread Antone Roundy
Tim Bray wrote: Question: how do we refer to the product of this WG once it has an RFC number? We definitely need some quick, snappy label to refer to that version to distinguish it from Atom 0.3, which is widely enough deployed that it'll be with us for a while. Per WG consensus, an Atom doc

Re: Atom 1.0?

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Bray wrote: Question: how do we refer to the product of this WG once it has an RFC number? We definitely need some quick, snappy label to refer to that version to distinguish it from Atom 0.3, which is widely enough deployed that

Re: Atom 1.0?

2005-05-09 Thread Walter Underwood
--On May 9, 2005 7:29:58 PM -0700 Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a better idea? --Tim Hey, let's vote on a *new* name. I'm +1 on Naked News, because it delivers the news without chrome and crap. Or maybe that is what you get when Atom (Adam?) goes public. Or because sex sells.