Bob Wyman wrote:
I know that nobody seems to like this issue… However, I have explained on numerous occasions that the existing prohibition against duplicate ids in a feed simply cannot be supported by PubSub or any other feed aggregator. The problem is, once again, that prohibiting duplicate ids provides an easy to use attack vector for those wishing to effectively “erase” entries written by another author. (i.e. by publishing an entry with an id identical to one published earlier, one can force the earlier entry to be flushed from Atom feeds.)
[...] Graham Park has proposed that we loosen the existing language to permit duplicate ids in the case where the entries have atom:source elements which identify different URI’s in “self” links. I support this compromise and believe it should be supported by the WG and incorporated into the Atom Draft.
Bob,
What will prevent people overwriting the atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'self'] links as well as the id?
cheers Bill
