> -----Original Message----- > From: Walter Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:16 AM > To: Scott Hollenbeck; 'Paul Hoffman'; iesg@ietf.org; 'Atom WG' > Subject: RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to > Proposed Standard > > > > --On May 10, 2005 8:57:47 AM -0400 Scott Hollenbeck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have to agree with Paul. I don't believe that the issue > of white space in > > the syndicated content is really an Atompub issue. It > might be an issue for > > the content creator. It might be an issue for the reader. > As long as the > > pipe between the two passes the content as submitted, > though, the pipe has > > done its job. > > If publishers and subscribers have obstacles to using Atom, > that sounds > like a problem to me.
Why? If the "problem" is in the content creation and consumption processes, why must the conduit provide the solution? I agree that Atompub shouldn't make the problem worse, but I don't believe that it should attempt to solve endpoint problems. > "Everyone has this problem" is not a good reason to ignore it. Someone > has to be the first to solve it, might as well be us. It is > not acceptable > to build formats for the "English Wide Web". That doesn't > exist any more. Sorry, but I disagree with the "might as well be us" part. Atompub is chartered to define a syndication format and protocol, not to solve the web's i18n problems. -Scott-
