Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Tim Bray
On May 18, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Isn't that redundant? From PaceOptionalSummary: Yup. Think we got that covered. -Tim

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/18/05, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18 May 2005, at 9:36 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: atom:entry elements are advised to contain ... a non-empty atom:summary element when the entry contains no atom:content element I'd like us to advise including an atom:summary when atom

Why and how to identify a feed (was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: There seemed to be consensus that feeds needed something to identify them. What there wasn't consensus on is which element should be that identifier. The solution selected was to make none of the identifiers required - som

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/18/05, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 May 2005, at 9:36 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: > > > atom:entry elements are advised to contain ... a non-empty > > atom:summary element when the entry > > contains no atom:content element > > I'd like us to advise including an atom:summary when a

Re: Change Control (was: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes)

2005-05-18 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 03:17 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 17, 2005, at 17:47, Antone Roundy wrote: What possible advantage would there be to allowing just anyone to add elements to Atom's namespace, or any other namespace, for that matter? I can't think of any. If you add to an exist

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread Roger B.
Eric: My bad... I was looking at Ye Olde PaceDateModified, not PaceDateModified2. Template-based systems can't reliably produce a PaceDateModified, but PDM2 is a different story. Consider the -1 moved to +0. -- Roger Benningfield

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Thomas Broyer
Tim Bray wrote: PaceEntryState Rejected, no support. Wasn't it intended for the protocol spec? (though section 3.5 doesn't exist in protocol-04) PaceOptionalXhtmlDiv A handful of -1's, no support, rejected. Maybe it came a bit late? And I think the -1's were misinterpretations of the Pace. None

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Graham
On 18 May 2005, at 6:03 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: Missed one: - There are many applications and users that *don't want* summaries. Some examples include Firefox, Cellphones, Tivos What happens when FireFox expands their Atom support to show summaries, but everyone's subscribed to title-only feeds?

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-18 23:15]: > On 18 May 2005, at 9:36 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: >> Regardless of how an associated application will handle >> entries with no atom:summary element, all Atom Processors MUST >> NOT fail to process Atom entries simply because they contain >> no atom

Re: Change Control (was: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes)

2005-05-18 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 17, 2005, at 17:47, Antone Roundy wrote: What possible advantage would there be to allowing just anyone to add elements to Atom's namespace, or any other namespace, for that matter? I can't think of any. If you add to an existing namespace, you don't need to add confusing namespace decla

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Graham
On 18 May 2005, at 9:36 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: atom:entry elements are advised to contain ... a non-empty atom:summary element when the entry contains no atom:content element I'd like us to advise including an atom:summary when atom:content is binary (or for that matter, any non-text/html/xhtm

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: How about this: Some applications may choose to require a minimum amount of inline text or (X)HTML data to function reliably and predictably. For that reason, atom:entry elements are advised to contain a non-empty atom:title element, a non-empty atom:summary element when the ent

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread David Powell
> PaceDuplicateIDWithModified > The consensus of the group against atom:modified months and months > ago was quite strong and this is not enough momentum to accomplish > such a major policy reversal. Rejected. I don't think that this Pace has had enough discussion to be rejected just yet - it's

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/18/05, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A concrete example of my concern is that feeds with atom:entries > containing will have those entries omitted by Firefox's > livebookmark support. > > The proposed changes to sections 3.1.1.1, 3.1.1.2, and 3.1.1.3, apply to > all text constructs

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 1:16:15 PM, Roger B wrote: >> There was opposition to atom:modified because we couldn't see a need for it. >> Now we have a need for it. > Eric: That most definitely wasn't the core reason for opposition, to > my recollection. I just checked the PaceDateModified thread

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Nikolas Coukouma
Graham wrote: On 18 May 2005, at 6:03 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: Missed one: - There are many applications and users that *don't want* summaries. Some examples include Firefox, Cellphones, Tivos What happens when FireFox expands their Atom support to show summaries, but everyone's subscribed to tit

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: I broadly agree with the chairs' opinions. Tim Bray wrote: PaceTextShouldBeProvided +1 from Ruby, explicit -1's from Sayre and de hÓra. However, taking this and PaceOptionalSummary together, it seems clear that the WG generally believes the following: - Title-only feeds a

PaceContentAndSummaryDistinct (was: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-18 06:30]: > This was modified in the course of debate. It can't be accepted > because the +1's (and -1's too) were referring to multiple different > wordings and there were three pretty strong -1's. > > Conclusion: The editors are asked to strengthen th

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/18/05, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 May 2005, at 6:03 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: > > > Missed one: > > - There are many applications and users that *don't want* summaries. > > Some examples include Firefox, Cellphones, Tivos > > What happens when FireFox expands their Atom support

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/18/05, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, in the case of XML, having the notion of an XML processor allowed > us to describe some real important things that turned out to be hard to > describe any other way. My personal opinion is that the benefit of > defining this in the Atom cas

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Tim Bray
On May 18, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: However, the absence of atom:summary is not an error and software MUST NOT fail to function correctly as a consequence of such an absence." We don't use the term 'software' in the draft. We discuss Atom Processors. Oops, editorial issue, please main

Re: Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions (was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread Bill de hÓra
Antone Roundy wrote: This is already bad enough. Now how about if the phishing feed claims that it's atom:id is http://a.com/feeda. Worse still. With the current spec text, an Atom consumer that does a little extra work, somehow figures out that the phishing version of the entry is not the sa

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Robert Sayre
I broadly agree with the chairs' opinions. > Tim Bray wrote: >> >> >> PaceTextShouldBeProvided >> >> +1 from Ruby, explicit -1's from Sayre and de hÓra. However, taking >> this and PaceOptionalSummary together, it seems clear that the WG >> generally believes the following: >> >> - Title-

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread Walter Underwood
--On Thursday, May 19, 2005 01:12:22 AM +1000 Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (See the wiki for a survey of tools and the dates they support.) hmmm ... Blogger, Moveable Type, JournURL, bloxsom, ExpressionEngine, ongoing, Roller, Macsanomat, WordPress, and BigBlogTool all provide dates which

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Sam Ruby
Sam Ruby wrote: Tim Bray wrote: On behalf of Paul and myself. Atom issues list: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/AtomPubIssuesList The volume of correspondence was unfortunately high for an IETF Last Call that came after a Working Group Last call. It is quite possible, as always, that the co

Re: Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions (was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 09:12 AM, Henry Story wrote: I supposed the surest way to make it impossible to fake the id, is to specify that by dereferencing the id and doing a GET (whatever the correct method of doing that for the protocol happens to be) one should be able to retrieve the ent

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 18/5/05 10:16 PM, "Roger B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric: That most definitely wasn't the core reason for opposition, to > my recollection. It was opposed because it can't be reliably produced > by existing systems, among other things. The exact same argument can be made against atom:pu

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread Eric Scheid
On 18/5/05 7:41 PM, "Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some are content changes, or metadata changes. > > I see no discussion of this distinction in the atom:modified proposal. I meant "content or metadata changes". I don't care so much about the distinction between those two senses. I was h

Re: Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions (was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread Henry Story
On 18 May 2005, at 16:41, Antone Roundy wrote: On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: "If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in an Atom Feed document, they describe the same entry and software MUST treat them as such." IIRC, much of this started d

Accidental and intentional atom:id collisions (was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues)

2005-05-18 Thread Antone Roundy
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: "If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in an Atom Feed document, they describe the same entry and software MUST treat them as such." IIRC, much of this started due to an objection by Bob Wyman that treating atom

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread Roger B.
> There was opposition to atom:modified because we couldn't see a need for it. > Now we have a need for it. Eric: That most definitely wasn't the core reason for opposition, to my recollection. It was opposed because it can't be reliably produced by existing systems, among other things. (See the

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-18 Thread Graham
On 18 May 2005, at 6:01 am, Eric Scheid wrote: Not so very long ago you suggested that aggregators look at the content to determine if it's changed. If it's good enough for aggregators, it's good enough for publishers (actually better than good enough since the publisher would be able to do t

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-18 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: Conclusion: This Pace is rejected. However, the editors are directed to include the following text in 4.2.13: "Experience teaches that feeds which contain textual content are in general more useful than those which do not. There are certain classes of application, for example