Graham wrote:
On 6 May 2005, at 2:10 pm, Dave Johnson wrote:
Yes, I think both of my arguments fail to hold and I no longer have a real objection to duplicates. Allowing duplicates gives feed produces to model events or other objects (versioned documents in a wiki) as they wish. Like you, I wonder "Does anyone remember why having the same id in a feed is a bad idea?"
Beacuse instead of a fixed model where a feed is a stream of entries each with their own id, it is now a stream of entries each of which does not have its own id, but shares it with similar entries. This is bullshit.
No, it's not, not yet. You can't reasonably call bullshit on this either way until we know what's being identified. When I boil it down, this is what I get:
"the technical problem we have is that we can't distinguish between a buggy feed with the same ids and an aggregate feed with the same ids under the current spec"
I have no good answer to that until I know what what an id stands for. The answer "an entry" isn't sufficient.
cheers Bill
