At 1:05 PM -0800 2/4/05, Tim Bray wrote:
On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
That means that you're not allowed to sue the same atom:id in any two entries, ever.
I don't read it that way, although I understand how you might infer that; there's too much wiggle room in the current text for that intent to be clear.
I.e., just because it's a "permanent, universally unique identifier" doesn't mean you're not able to use it twice to talk about a single entry; to RDF people, this will seem quite natural. If you want to only see one instance of an atom:id's content in the set of all entries ever published in any feed, you need to say that explicitly.
I'm with Mnot on this one.
So am I; I should have sad "...in any two different entries, ever". And an archive of a feed can have the entry many times, no problem.
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