On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:53 PM, John Panzer <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I like  the concept and this may be a reasonable implementation.  There's
> related work done on this for OStatus and Salmon which might be worth
> looking at.
>
> My big question though is what the semantics of this are supposed to be;
> the names are suggestive of email, clearly intentionally, but the spec
> doesn't state this.  Are there suggested semantics?  Or is intended to
> inherit semantics from email (which inherited from business snail mail...)?
>
> (Also, bcc is untenable for use with signed content.)
>

I'd be inclined to include a scheme - eg mailto: - in which case the <link>
element makes the most sense to me even if hreflang et al don't apply. Could
also have a generic "recipient" relationship with an extensible type (to,
cc, bcc).

The bar to extend the basic Atom metamodel should be very high - if anything
we should be looking at *removing* things like author (e.g. making them
optional) as they often don't make sense in today's applications (eg GData).

Sam


> On 10/15/2010 2:02 PM, James Snell wrote:
>
> Wanted to draw attention to this:
>
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-norris-atompub-audience-00.html
>
>  It introduces to/cc/bcc elements to an Atom entry.
>
>    <entry>
>     ...
>     <to>acct:[email protected] <acct%[email protected]></to>
>     <to>acct:[email protected] <acct%[email protected]></to>
>     <cc>acct:[email protected] <acct%[email protected]></cc>
>     <cc>acct:[email protected] <acct%[email protected]></cc>
>     <bcc>acct:[email protected] <acct%[email protected]></bcc>
>     <bcc>acct:[email protected] <acct%[email protected]></bcc>
>      ...
>   </entry>
>
>  Comments are welcomed and requested.
>
>  - James
>
>
>

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