Re: Atom Syndication Format To Draft Standard?

[Lisa Dusseault]

The Draft Standard requirement for demonstrated interoperability for all features is documented in RFC2026.  It's that requirement which leads to the popular conclusion that in many cases, adding a new feature is incompatible with moving to Draft Standard at the same time -- that popular conclusion is part of the folklore, not part of the requirements, which is appropriate.  You could draw a different conclusion and argue for that conclusion and might meet with some success, because determining sufficient "demonstrated  interoperability" is sometimes going to be a judgement call anyway. Lisa On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: That's unfortunate. A documented process is a requirement for open standards development, in the opinion of many <http://blogs.sun.com/dennisding/resource/Open%20Standard%20Definition.pdf>