Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-20 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:25:24 +0100, Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well actually I was thinking about creating a "unified feed API" (in > .NET, but could be ported to other languages) and trying to reduce > memory footprint by reusing Person objects, as well as providing > relations (

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas Broyer
Danny Ayers wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:55:06 +, Bill de hÓra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Extend Atom with FOAF instead if you really need these capabilities in the near term. Yep, given the timescales involved, that sounds like a good pragmatic solution. +1, as said in another mail. Even if A

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-19 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:55:06 +, Bill de hÓra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Extend Atom with > FOAF instead if you really need these capabilities in the near term. Yep, given the timescales involved, that sounds like a good pragmatic solution. Even if Atom doesn't support it, and feeds don't us

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas Broyer
Bill de hÓra wrote: Thomas Broyer wrote: As I already said, this would greatly help storing feeds efficiently in databases or object graphs. Any comment? -1. The WG shouldn't contemplate standardizing identity management at this time. Yes, it could be pinned out until the next Atom version. This i

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-19 Thread Bill de hÓra
Thomas Broyer wrote: As I already said, this would greatly help storing feeds efficiently in databases or object graphs. Any comment? -1. The WG shouldn't contemplate standardizing identity management at this time. This is a complex problem domain, even in closed systems. Feed format specs are

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-19 Thread Danny Ayers
The use cases are good, and even before you start looking at the relationship between entries and people there are limits to what you can do with the author/contributor constructs. This general issue has had 4+ years of hammering in theory and practical deployment around FOAF, which is been succe

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-19 Thread Henry Story
I like this - even though I disagree with the constraints - as it follows nicely on the parallel I developed in the Madonna example [1] between personal identity and entry identity. Clearly if the same atom:id were to be used then we are identifying the id that appears in an entry and the id that

Re: Person "identity"

2005-03-18 Thread Antone Roundy
On Friday, March 18, 2005, at 08:23 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: I propose adding an optional atom:id element to the Person construct content model, If it's not too late, I wouldn't be opposed to this, but I'm not sure I agree entirely with the specific rules. with the following rules (to be reworde

Person "identity"

2005-03-18 Thread Thomas Broyer
Hi there, It seems something's missing about authors and contributors... This is allowed: Thomas Broyer Thomas Broyer ... as well as: Thomas Broyer Thomas Broyer or even (less obvious): Thomas Broyer Broyer, Thomas T. Broyer or Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Broyer