Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-07 Thread David Powell
Sunday, February 6, 2005, 3:10:23 AM, you wrote: On 6/2/05 4:27 AM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although we could keep the model we have (let's call it the 'mutable entries' model), it isn’t clear on a number of issues. Eg, if an old version of an entry has some property that

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 Feb 2005, at 00:34, Robert Sayre wrote: Antone Roundy wrote: 3.5 Identity Constructs An Identity construct is an element whose content conveys a permanent, universally unique identifier for the resource (instantiated|described) by the construct's parent element. An Atom Document MAY

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-05 Thread Henry Story
On 5 Feb 2005, at 18:27, David Powell wrote: I disagree, as I've said before. The only literal interpretation is that you can't serve the same entry twice with the same id. We know it doesn't mean that, but the spec just doesn't define in which axis unique is meant to apply. I think that the

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 6/2/05 4:27 AM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although we could keep the model we have (let's call it the 'mutable entries' model), it isn’t clear on a number of issues. Eg, if an old version of an entry has some property that isn’t present in a newer version, does that

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 4, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Bob Wyman wrote: Although I can't find it specified in the current draft, there used to be a rule that you weren't supposed to use the same atom:id more than once in a single feed. (This rule is enforced by FeedValidator for Atom 0.3 documents... Sam? Mark?) Sounds

RE: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 2:56 PM -0500 2/4/05, Bob Wyman wrote: Although I can't find it specified in the current draft, there used to be a rule that you weren't supposed to use the same atom:id more than once in a single feed. The current draft says: 5.8 atom:id Element The atom:id element is an Identity

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Paul Hoffman wrote: Although I can't find it specified in the current draft, there used to be a rule that you weren't supposed to use the same atom:id more than once in a single feed. The current draft says: 5.8 atom:id Element The atom:id element is an Identity construct that

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Mark Nottingham
On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 2:56 PM -0500 2/4/05, Bob Wyman wrote: Although I can't find it specified in the current draft, there used to be a rule that you weren't supposed to use the same atom:id more than once in a single feed. The current draft says: 5.8 atom:id

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Graham
On 4 Feb 2005, at 8:44 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: I.e., just because it's a permanent, universally unique identifier doesn't mean you're not able to use it twice to talk about a single entry; I disagree, as I've said before. The only literal interpretation is that you can't serve the same entry

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: That means that you're not allowed to sue the same atom:id in any two entries, ever. I don't read it that way, although I understand how you might infer that; there's too much wiggle room in the current text for that intent to be clear. I.e.,

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bill de hÓra
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: It does not mean that once cannot have multiple versions of the same entry in a feed (or duplicate entries for that matter). Conversely it does imply that if you do, you may (and possibly, must) assume that they are the same entry. The problem: there's no easy way to

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Sayre
Graham wrote: On 4 Feb 2005, at 8:44 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: I.e., just because it's a permanent, universally unique identifier doesn't mean you're not able to use it twice to talk about a single entry; I disagree, as I've said before. The only literal interpretation is that you can't serve

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Henry Story
A really clear way to specify this is to say that an id is a functional relation between an entry and a identity construct. This implies: -An Entry can only have one id. -Different Entries can have the same id. Of course because there is a bit of a confusion as to what is meant by an Entry

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Graham
On 4 Feb 2005, at 9:10 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: Separately, there's the issue of what it *should* say. Tim and now you say that you have a good idea of what you want it to say; I'd be very interested to see how you'd specify that. Can you suggest some spec text? As I suggested a couple of

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Sayre
Tim Bray wrote: I'm with Mnot on this one. Just because it uniquely identifies an entry, that doesn't mean you can't have two versions of the same entry in a feed. ... I don't see any reason for ruling them out in a single feed. Robert Sayre wrote: We should probably be more worried about bad

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Graham
On 4 Feb 2005, at 10:09 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: The term version seems out of place here. What you're saying, in effect, is that the ID acts as a hash of entry's content, correct? If, so, what value does it bring? Pardon: Any two versions of the same entry must use the same id, [which

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Antone Roundy
On Friday, February 4, 2005, at 02:05 PM, Tim Bray wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: That means that you're not allowed to sue the same atom:id in any two entries, ever. I don't read it that way, although I understand how you might infer that; there's too much wiggle

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Mark Nottingham
When you talk about characters being the same or different, are you saying in the entry, or in the id? On Feb 4, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Graham wrote: On 4 Feb 2005, at 10:09 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: The term version seems out of place here. What you're saying, in effect, is that the ID acts as a

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Graham
On 4 Feb 2005, at 10:32 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: When you talk about characters being the same or different, are you saying in the entry, or in the id? Oh, right. The id. That would be clear if the things in brackets were expanded (since same and different ids also need defining). Graham

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:05 PM -0800 2/4/05, Tim Bray wrote: On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: That means that you're not allowed to sue the same atom:id in any two entries, ever. I don't read it that way, although I understand how you might infer that; there's too much wiggle room in the current

RE: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bob Wyman
Paul Hoffman wrote: That means that you're not allowed to [use] the same atom:id in any two entries, ever. We have atom:modified in order to indicate that an instance is a modified version of a previously published entry. The linkage between the two instances of the entry is that they

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Antone Roundy
On Friday, February 4, 2005, at 03:12 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: An Identity construct is an element whose content conveys an unchanging identifier which MUST be universally unique within Atom Documents to the set of all versions and instantiations of the resource that the construct's parent

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Sayre
Antone Roundy wrote: 3.5 Identity Constructs An Identity construct is an element whose content conveys a permanent, universally unique identifier for the resource (instantiated|described) by the construct's parent element. An Atom Document MAY contain multiple (revisions|versions) of the same

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Mark Nottingham
Just a note; I'm planning to remove the Identity Construct from -06, because it's only used in one place (the definition of atom:id). Otherwise, this sounds like a reasonable start. On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: On Friday, February 4, 2005, at 03:12 PM, Antone Roundy wrote:

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 4, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: On Friday, February 4, 2005, at 03:12 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: An Identity construct is an element whose content conveys an unchanging identifier which MUST be universally unique within Atom Documents to the set of all versions and

RE: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bob Wyman
Hoffman'; 'Atom WG' Subject: Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent On Feb 4, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: Paul Hoffman wrote: That means that you're not allowed to [use] the same atom:id in any two entries, ever. We have atom:modified in order to indicate

Re: sub feeds (was Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent)

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Scheid
On 3/2/05 7:18 PM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is better. I guess I just hadn't grok'd the idea of using entries to reference feeds, but now that I see the angle brackets I get it. Yes, feeds are entries. no, feeds are collections, entries describe resources, and while

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-03 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 2, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: ... On Monday, Feb. 7, the Working Group's final queue rotation will consist of all Paces open at that time. Any Paces that have obvious holes in them (to be filled in later, more needs to go here, etc.) will be ignored. We have had over a year of

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Nottingham
Walter brings up an important point; has, or when will, the drafts be compared to the requirements in the charter? Cheers, On Feb 2, 2005, at 8:36 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: The charter says that Atom will work for archiving. We don't know that it will, and it hasn't been discussed for months.

Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
Greetings again. And, thanks again for all the work people did on the last work queue rotation. We now have the end of the format draft squarely in sight. The WG still has a bunch of finished Paces that have not been formally considered, a (thankfully) much smaller number of unfinished Paces,

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Sayre
Paul Hoffman wrote: Please do *not* rush out to write a Pace unless it is for something that is *truly* part of the Atom core, and you really believe that it is likely that there will be consensus within a week. Sorry, this is not a legitimate condition. If someone writes a Pace that points

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:57 PM -0500 2/2/05, Robert Sayre wrote: Paul Hoffman wrote: Please do *not* rush out to write a Pace unless it is for something that is *truly* part of the Atom core, and you really believe that it is likely that there will be consensus within a week. Sorry, this is not a legitimate

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Scheid
On 3/2/05 4:01 PM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4.) Atom sucks at blogs with comments or trackbacks 5.) Atom sucks at anything with a representation of its own and collection membership link href=... type=application/atom+xml rel=comments / link href=... type=application/atom+xml

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-02 Thread James Snell
+1 Eric. sub-feeds can easily be nested by reference using the existing link mechanism as opposed to nesting by containment. Overall this would be a cleaner model and would be easier on bandwidth by allowing nested feeds to be broken up over several documents rather than stuffed all into a

Re: Atom for Archives (was:Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent)

2005-02-02 Thread James Snell
Comments below.. On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:27:33 +1100, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/05 5:09 PM, James Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the model for archiving with Atom? One or more distinct Atom feeds that each contain a collection of old entries? If so, what we