Mark Nottingham wrote:
Atom has a namespace; that can be use to introduce new versions of the format.
No, no, and no. We've been down this road before in other specs, and the community wisdom is that you do not rev the namespace just to introduce a new version. Doing so breaks a huge amount of the existing processing chain for an application.
It is, of course, possible to introduce new elements in other namespaces; and the Atom spec does a much better than average job of preparing for this. Indeed there are already many interesting extensions.
However, even if fundamental flaws were found in Atom 1.0 that required revisions and an Atom 1.1 or 2.0, the namespace should and almost certainly woulds remain the same.
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