Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Robert Sayre wrote:
Suppose your user is subscribed to a feed containing 1000 entries. One day, the host name is no longer capitalized. Are you going to put 1000 new, duplicate entries in front of the user?
It seems the Working Group is split on the requirements for duplicate detection, we have participants who want to require a deterministic algorithm to gurantee interoperable detection, participants who want implementation-defined algorithms to implement best-effort strategies, and participants who want to encourage interoperable detection while allowing implementation-defined algorithms for various reasons. Maybe we should first find some form of consensus on the requirements before we proceed with writing new or removing old specification text.
I do not think it will contribute to Atom's success if some Atom im- plementations are better than other implementations when it comes to duplicate detection.
+1
It will be actively harmful to Atom's success if the standard is defined in such a way that is no realistic expectation that it will be followed.
- Sam Ruby
