Graham wrote:
4) Add a sentence saying something like "Feeds or Entries are identical if their IDs compare identical.". Seems obvious, but isn't stated anywhere.
No. Feeds/entries with the same id are different versions or instances of a common ancestor. They are not "the same".
+1.
It is right that you shouldn't conflate two entries based on solely their ID (because they might represent different states).
The main value of IDs seems to be a better user experience rather than optimized storage - but I imagine any client tool that wants to rationalize the entries presented to the reader is going to use dates heuristics as well as ids to organize what Tim is calling the entry instances.
Otherwise, this thread sounds like resources and representations all over with the caveat that entry representations are being sourced from multiple origin servers.
cheers Bill
