Drosophilia of Delegation (identity and private feeds)

2007-04-04 Thread John Panzer
I've written this up in a longer post[1]. Quick summary: I'm thinking that authentication/authorization and RSS/Atom feeds present an ideal test case for delegation to automated services. How should OpenID be extended to handle this case? Could we work through a specfic use case where

Re: Autodiscovery Draft

2007-03-19 Thread John Panzer
There were strong suggestions at the time, I think, that this was part of HTML and should belong to the WHAT-WG. So is there a WHAT-WG document to look at? Also, is there a standard way to discover the collection associated with a feed? (Given that, if there is an IETF or WHAT-WG way to

Query re: support of Media RSS extensions inside Atom feeds

2007-02-09 Thread John Panzer
. Thanks, -- John Panzer System Architect http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-15 Thread John Panzer
Agreed, in an ideal world. -- John Panzer System Architect http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread John Panzer
Tim Bray wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. co-chair-modeIn case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread John Panzer
Tim Bray wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. co-chair-modeIn case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the

Re: In San Francisco/Bay Area

2006-12-06 Thread John Panzer
]] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:42 PM To: John Panzer Cc: Lisa Dusseault; Atom Protocol; Atom Subject: Re: In San Francisco/Bay Area I'll be there at 6:30pm then. I imagine people will not be wanting to stay very late. Henry On 5 Dec 2006

Re: In San Francisco/Bay Area

2006-12-05 Thread John Panzer
2006, at 21:31, John Panzer wrote: Any of those would be good for me. Be careful of the deep fried onion rings at Tied House, though. Henry Story wrote: It has been suggested that a good meeting location might be Tied House in Mountain View [1

Re: PaceEntryMediatype

2006-11-29 Thread John Panzer
So this needs a decision tree: +1 to having some way to modify type= (either new media type, or appending ;type=entry, +0 to either) +1 to application/atom.entry+xml if new media type is used +1 to doing this outside of APP (but concerned about deprecating...) My use case: A web page that

Re: In San Francisco/Bay Area

2006-11-28 Thread John Panzer
. Would anyone in the area be up for a group meeting? Henry Home page: http://bblfish.net/ Sun Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/ Foaf name: http://bblfish.net/people/henry/card#me -- John Panzer System Architect http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Author element best practice

2006-11-22 Thread John Panzer
Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote: Tim Bray wrote: On Nov 22, 2006, at 3:11 AM, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote: Say I POST an atom:entry to a collection URI, this entry does not have an atom:author If I were implementing the server, in this scenario I'd reject the post with an error

Searching for Atom-enabled code

2006-10-05 Thread John Panzer
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Re: URGENT: Remove atom:updated ordering requirement?

2006-09-27 Thread John Panzer
+1 to removing the MUST. +0 to changing it to SHOULD. Tim Bray wrote: co-chair-mode Please see the dialogue below. /co-chair-mode (Eric's point seems plausible to me; personally I'd be inclined to a +1.) co-chair-mode Can we have some feedback from the WG ASAP? We want to take

Re: atom license extension (Re: [cc-tab] *important* heads up)

2006-09-07 Thread John Panzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 7 sept. 06 à 01:29, John Panzer a écrit : This is a critical point. Without this, implementors cannot safely ignore licenses they don't understand (falling back to things like fair use if they can't find any licenses that grant additional copying rights

Re: atom license extension (Re: [cc-tab] *important* heads up)

2006-09-07 Thread John Panzer
, the ability to what one would naturally expect to do with a feed). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle -John Panzer http://abstractioneer.org

Re: atom license extension (Re: [cc-tab] *important* heads up)

2006-09-06 Thread John Panzer
content is allowable, if the feed provider adds a license, it is still allowable. -John Panzer

Re: atom liense extension (was Re: [cc-tab] *important* heads up)

2006-09-05 Thread John Panzer
(I'm deliberately picking a GIF picture as I believe there's no good solution for embedding license metadata inside GIFs.  ) -John Panzer

Re: Paging, Feed History, etc.

2006-06-07 Thread John Panzer
James Holderness wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: Our of curiosity, do you know of *any* client applications that actually support feed paging? I think most of the use cases for paging have to do with things like GData, OpenSearch, etc -- i.e., query results. That sort of thing isn't

Copyright, licensing, and feeds

2006-06-07 Thread John Panzer
underpinning is one of the things that's necessary here. -- John Panzer System Architect, AOL http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Copyright, licensing, and feeds

2006-06-07 Thread John Panzer
Elliotte Harold wrote: John Panzer wrote: I'm attempting to promote the use of explicit licenses in feeds, and Creative Commons is one great source of predefined licenses suitable for the kinds of things that people want to use feeds for today: Creative Commons only covers a very small

Re: Copyright, licensing, and feeds

2006-06-07 Thread John Panzer
Yes, I intended to refer to James' feed license extension: http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-snell-atompub-feed-license/ (James, I think you meant "feed license draft" rather than "feed thread draft", right?  :) ) James M Snell wrote: I don't want to speak for John, but in the feed

Discoverability of feeds with differing licences

2006-06-06 Thread John Panzer
e only" feed is an "alternate" representation, or perhaps an "index" to the full feed, or perhaps a new relation (or two) is needed. Thoughts? -- John Panzer System Architect http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Paging, Feed History, etc.

2006-06-06 Thread John Panzer
Mark Nottingham wrote: I've been talking to a number of people face-to-face about Feed History and the use cases for it, and I've come to a position where I believe there are two major use cases out there for putting together multiple feeds to form one big, virtual feed. 1) So-called

Re: Discoverability of feeds with differing licences

2006-06-06 Thread John Panzer
route promoted by CreativeCommons covers all of the necessary pieces to allow for such things, this would by far be the best route to promote to content producers. Thoughts? On 6/6/06, John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Some sites offer two versions of feeds; one is a 'headline only

Re: Informational vs. standards-track (Was: Re: Last Call: 'Atom Threading Extensions' to Proposed Standard (draft-snell-atompub-feed-thread))

2006-05-17 Thread John Panzer
Experience report: Our implementation of comments for AOL blogs includes the count information in a proprietary extension (aj:commentCount), precisely because we need the information for UI purposes. We've found it useful and we'd like to use a more standard extension to help enable

Re: Feed Thread in Last Call

2006-05-17 Thread John Panzer
-- John Panzer System Architect, AOL http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Atom Rank Extensions

2006-05-02 Thread John Panzer
Robert Sayre wrote: .. Are there any WG members left who were around at that phase? I joined right around then... *Holds up hand. Shrugs. Goes back to work.*

Re: Is there a way to specify that a feed requires a login?

2006-04-28 Thread John Panzer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: Hi Aleks, * Aleks Totic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-23 00:15]: For authenticated sites, if your login cookies are not there, you get back a login page. In Thunderbird there is no way to fill in the login page, as all browsing requests are redirected to Firefox.

Tools that make use of previous/next/first/last links?

2006-04-26 Thread John Panzer
ractioneer/atom.xml Thanks, -- John Panzer System Architect http://abstractioneer.org

Re: Tools that make use of previous/next/first/last links?

2006-04-26 Thread John Panzer
parser impl. The paging works great. However, I nearly cried when I saw aj:commentCount ;-) - James John Panzer wrote: We just deployed support for [EMAIL PROTECTED]"previous" et al. for AOL Journals. If anyone has a client that makes use of these links, please let me

The Google Calendar API

2006-04-21 Thread John Panzer
...is Atom: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html Interesting that Google is leveraging Atom extensively in the GData generic read/write protocols. The supported authentication scheme is also interesting.

Google Calendar

2006-04-13 Thread John Panzer
Google Calendar has launched (and there was much rejoicing). It uses Atom feeds for public calendar information: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/111sesssuutl03vh7c25avs35s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full It validates, with a handful of warnings. They're using some namespaced

Re: Feed License Draft

2006-04-11 Thread John Panzer
licence. It's not a huge issue but if there's a good reason why this rule is in place it would be good to know. -John Panzer James M Snell wrote on 1/27/2006, 4:17 PM: Just an editorial clean up of the draft. No significant technical changes. This draft should now be considered complete

Re: Feed License Draft

2006-04-11 Thread John Panzer
, that would mean that you would end up distributing my content under a different license than what I had originally intended, which you, of course, have no right to do. Therefore, entries are licensed independently of the feeds in which they happen to appear. - James John Panzer wrote

Licencing and feeds

2006-03-22 Thread John Panzer
to this list, I'm tentatively advocating adopting James Snell's RelLicense extension for Atom, and looking for equivalent mechanisms for RSS. Link: http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer/entries/1281 Thanks, -- John Panzer System Architect http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer

Re: Licencing and feeds

2006-03-22 Thread John Panzer
Elliotte Harold wrote: John Panzer wrote: All -- I'm starting a discussion about feed licencing which might be of interest to members of this mailing list, and which will hopefully help form the technical extensions that AOL uses to deal with feed licencing. I'd welcome any input

Re: Browser behaviour

2006-02-01 Thread John Panzer
A. Pagaltzis wrote on 2/1/2006, 1:39 PM: * John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-30 22:05]: This means that users might possibly end up subscribing to something of type application/xml if they copy and paste URL #3... but we could also make this client dependent so

Re: Browser behaviour

2006-01-30 Thread John Panzer
Thomas Broyer wrote: ... (and if possible click on a link to lead them to the site's browser-dedicated pages); those people should just use a rel=nofollow on the direct links to their feeds. I don't think that means what you think it means. At least, if you mean for search engines not to

Re: Browser behaviour

2006-01-30 Thread John Panzer
Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2006, at 8:23 AM, James M Snell wrote: +1. Serving atom up at application/xml is perfectly acceptable It is *not*. Atom has a registered Internet media type (application/ atom+xml); using anything else is a bug. -Tim Here's my 'best effort' suggestion

Re: Browser behaviour

2006-01-30 Thread John Panzer
. John Panzer wrote: (1) All links from within feeds go to a resource of type "application/atom+xml". (2) Header links (link rel...) in web pages to to a resource as in #1. (3) Feed links displayed in web pages, which a user in a web browser might click on, go to a resour

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-25 Thread John Panzer
To clarify my +1 to Ship it: At AOL, we are using Atom internally as a data exchange format (and just converted to 1.0 syntax). We are using an early version of the introspection document as well, but only for limited internal use as it's nonstandard and likely to change. When the dust

RE: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-24 Thread John Panzer
+1 to ship it. -- John Panzer Sr. Technical Manager http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer

Re: finishing autodiscovery, like now

2006-01-19 Thread John Panzer
of the current page, at best. It's also not unreasonable to want to have a way to find an individual Atom entry associated with this page. This would intuitively seem to be a reasonable 'alternate' since it contains the same information in a different format. -- John Panzer Sr. Technical Manager http

Re: atom:content's src and server-driven content negotiation

2006-01-18 Thread John Panzer
type is authoritative. So implementors who follow HTTP 1.1 content negotiation should be fine, those who don't will get whatever your default type is. Or should. -- John Panzer Sr Technical Manager, AOL http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer

Re: more than one content element?

2005-10-13 Thread John Panzer
James Holderness wrote: A. Pagaltzis wrote: And deviously, you can inline the image data inside the feed too, by using a data: URI with one of these methods. However, shipping blobs around inside a feed is not a bright idea with the currently common feed use cases. There's also the

Re: more than one content element?

2005-10-13 Thread John Panzer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * John Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-13 18:45]: If I recall, I believe this is because some people wanted to be able to package multiple pieces of content together in a single entry, and other people did not want to have to imply a requirement for MIME

Re: Roll-up of proposed changes to atompub-format section 5

2005-07-05 Thread John Panzer
. -- John Panzer Sr Technical Manager, AOL http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer

Re: some xmlns:atom tomfoolery

2005-05-28 Thread John Panzer
Eric Scheid wrote: An Atom Entry can have XML content, right... Consider this example: feed xmlns=http://...atom; ... entry titlethe minimal Atom Entry/title summaryA minimal entry has only .../summary content type=application/atom+xml entry

Re: Atom feed refresh rates

2005-05-05 Thread John Panzer
I assume an HTTP Expires header for Atom content will work and play well with caches such as the Google Accelerator (http://webaccelerator.google.com/). I'd also guess that a syntax-level tag won't. Is this important? The HTML solution for people who could not implement Expires: seems to

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs

2005-05-05 Thread John Panzer
Graham wrote: On 5 May 2005, at 5:38 pm, Eric Scheid wrote: Many wiki's offer options in displaying their change log with either most recent changes only, or all changes. Both models are commonly supported because some people want to see notifications of all changes, while others just want to

Re: NoIndex, again

2005-04-19 Thread John Panzer
Regarding the privacy facet: True privacy probably requires access control, which requires authentication. In fact this is one of the major use cases for authenticated Atom feeds in AOL Journals. -John Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma wrote on 4/19/05, 8:50 PM: Some pertinent quotes from the

Re: copyright, Creative Commons, and DRM in Atom/RSS

2005-03-25 Thread John Panzer
Bob Wyman wrote: Henry Story wrote: Yahoo! search launching a creative commons search engine ... it would be very helpful if there were a machine readable way to set copyright policy on entries. .. So, in summary, let's not go down the DRM path. It is a snake pit

Re: PaceArchiveDocument

2005-02-07 Thread John Panzer
-1 to the Pace. The current syntax sufficiently meets the 'support for archives' charter, and extensions are possible. -John

Re: PaceEntryOrder

2005-02-07 Thread John Panzer
+1. Low cost, good benefits for interoperability.

Re: Feed, know thyself?

2005-01-14 Thread John Panzer
NOT contain more than one atom:link element with a rel attribute value of alternate that has the same type attribute value. [1] http://danja.typepad.com/uncooked/2005/01/life_the_univer.html -- http://dannyayers.com -- John Panzer | Sr Technical Manager, AOL Blog