On 6 May 2005, at 1:26 pm, Sam Ruby wrote:
My concern is not that tools will need to be updated. My concern is that tools won't know that they need to update. How will they know that they need to update to handle a set of feeds that nobody is currently providing?
How is this different to any of the other new features in Atom? No one agrees with you on this point; If you don't have anything else, please stop making everyone else's life harder by labouring a point that doesn't affect you in any way.
Something that WOULD attract my attention is somebody saying "here is a set of feeds that I would like to provide that I can't provide in a valid way according to any of the available RSS specifications."
I have private RSS feeds showing new referrals for my websites. They do not have corresponding web pages, and don't have feed-level links. I think these kind of feeds make up a significant chunk of the demand for dropping the requirement.
Graham
