Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-07 Thread Eric Scheid
> PaceClarifyDateUpdated +1. atom:updated is not atom:modified or dc:modified, and we need to guard against that if the special semantics of atom:updated are not be smothered under a flood of atom:modified pollution.

PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Sayre
-1. Doesn't make sense or add value to the document. Robert Sayre

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-07 Thread Walter Underwood
--On February 6, 2005 1:07:42 PM +0200 Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. Also as a spec expectation--that is, how often is the "SHOULD NOT" > expected > to be violated. Will the SHOULD NOT be violated so often that it dilutes the > meaning of all SHOULD NOTs? Roughly, a SHOULD or

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Robert Sayre
Bill de hÓra wrote: Tim Bray wrote: The reason that we have "updated" with the current language is it reflects the reality that the *only* kind of change that can be cleanly defined is "The publisher thinks it changed." Strong agreement and as I'm not constrained by being a chair, I'll go furt

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: On Feb 6, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Henry Story wrote: Thinking about it, I would be in favor of clarifying it to be "any change should result in a date update". No, atom:update is subjective. How UIs support that subjectivity is best left to innovation. I like Graham's wording as it make

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 6, 2005, at 3:16 AM, Henry Story wrote: Thinking about it, I would be in favor of clarifying it to be "any change should result in a date update". If you will go back and review the correspondence, you will discover a lot of argument, the upshot of which was, different publishers have ver

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Graham
On 6 Feb 2005, at 7:15 am, Henri Sivonen wrote: What do you propose one should do when the current system to which Atom output is to be added do not record such updates but only records the date when the bytes changed? The modification dates in my current RSS feed are based on the HTTP Last-Mod

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Henry Story
From what has been said recently previous versions of RSS had no versioning mechanism. It was therefore not possible for software to automate the difference tracking behavior. Hence your problem is partly related to the limitations in the previous formats. Since Atom does in fact have a versioning

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Henry Story
Thinking about it, I would be in favor of clarifying it to be "any change should result in a date update". Clients can do simple diffs and work out themselves if the changes warrant a new date. Presumably clients that see that the only change has been to the white space layout may decide that this

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:56, Roger B. wrote: What do you propose one should do when the current system to which Atom output is to be added do not record such updates but only records the date when the bytes changed? Henri: As a practical matter? Yes. Also as a spec expectation--that is, how often is

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-06 Thread Roger B.
> What do you propose one should do when the current system to which Atom > output is to be added do not record such updates but only records the > date when the bytes changed? Henri: As a practical matter? If that's what you have, that's what you use. But a lot of it comes down to knowing your

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-05 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Feb 6, 2005, at 01:48, Graham wrote: Change second sentence of: The "atom:updated" element is a Date construct indicating the most recent instant in time when an entry or feed was modified in a way the producer considers significant. Therefore, not all modifications necessarily res

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 6/2/05 10:48 AM, "Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Therefore, other modifications SHOULD NOT result in a changed > atom:updated value. +1 e.

Re: PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-05 Thread Bill de hÓra
Graham wrote: #pragma section-numbers off == Abstract == Clarify when not to update atom:updated +1 cheers Bill

PaceClarifyDateUpdated

2005-02-05 Thread Graham
#pragma section-numbers off == Abstract == Clarify when not to update atom:updated == Status == Open == Rationale == The second sentence ("not all modifications...") is a bit vague and conceivably contradicts the first (which implies "only some", second implies "most"). NB This is not an attempt