RE: The Atom Format end-game (PICS)??

2005-01-08 Thread Bob Wyman
Tim Bray wrote: > 2. We are close to RSS2 feature-compatibility, we either adopt > image & enclosure or make a conscious decision not to. There are other bits of RSS2 that should be seriously considered -- even if they aren't widely used. For instance, the RSS2 element which contains a PI

Signatures in feeds of Aggregated Entry Documents

2005-01-08 Thread Bob Wyman
As Robert Sayre recently wrote: >DSig and XMLEnc are in core. >http://atompub.org/2004/10/20/draft-ietf-atompub-format-03.html#rfc.section.7   However, the text says: “The document element of an Atom document (i.e., atom:feed in an Atom Feed Document, atom:entry in an Atom Entry Docum

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread James Snell
I really don't want to be going down the road of requiring HTTP header equivalents in the Atom feed, etc. All I want is the ability to specify a hash of whatever it is that is being linked to. It could work in both link and content elements and one could easily use the Content-MD5 header to veri

Re: Please Review: Dissemination of Earthquake / Tsunami data via Atom

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Sayre
Bob Wyman wrote: 2.I've been thinking that I might include an atom:summary element that contained a textual version of the XML data carried in the content field. However, it appears that most aggregators today display either the summary or the content but don't display both... The same is tr

Re: Please Review: Dissemination of Earthquake / Tsunami data via Atom

2005-01-08 Thread Antone Roundy
On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 04:49 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: One quick comment--would not the above XML place in the namespace "http://pubsub.com/xmlns"; rather than the Atom namespace? I'd think you need something like this:

Re: Comment on process

2005-01-08 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Danny Ayers wrote: I doubt anyone reading Tim's recent posts on the subject of extensibility could come to any conclusion other than that he is vehemently opposed I've decided I just don't know. Henry says we need to do nearly nothing, and a few days back I proposed sa

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Eric Scheid
On 9/1/05 7:28 AM, "Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I require this functionality in . There is aboslutely > no way I'm initiating 20 HTTP requests (even HEADs) each time the feed > is reloaded. that's what the /feed/entry/modified date is for. e.

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Antone Roundy
On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 08:00 AM, Henry Story wrote: Now the problem with the graph above, is that it does not make sense to assign a geo location to an entry. This will probably not be allowed by the geo ontology, which will probably specify some location class to be the the subject of

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:18:37 +, Bill de hÓra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look, the point is this. Those arguing from the RDF side of the house do [not] > mean what you mean by extensible. Furthermore, what is meant there by > extensible hasn't been demonstrated (in my mind) as a requirement

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Janne Jalkanen
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:49:55 +, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, for that example, it's not so necessary. But I've heard of one > suggested usage being: > > > > Which would require reloading to maintain feature parity with > non-external content. How about putting HTTP etags direct

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: Well, Content-Length lives in the attributes as "length", but I don't think we need to make a home for every HTTP header. Content-MD5 will work just fine; it would probably be wise to send a HEAD request before automatically downloading a giant mp3. Furthermore, you'll get a

Re: Comment on process

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:26:14 -0500, Scott Hollenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No-one gains anything from overly protracted discussion. But > > I don't seen any extraordinary circumstances that might > > justify the imposition of cloture. Is there something related > > to the (still unexplaine

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 8, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: My answer to this question is that Atom doesn't have a model in terms of being able to talk about extension so there's no point discussing it. Extensibility is probably out of scope for the format. I'm not going to let that go unch

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Bill de hÓra wrote: Look, the point is this. Those arguing from the RDF side of the house do mean what you mean by extensible. Furthermore, what is meant there by Dammit. Sorry, that should be, those arguing from the RDF side of the house do *not* mean what you mean by extensible. cheers Bill

Re: Atom extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Antone Roundy
On Friday, January 7, 2005, at 09:33 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: On 8/1/05 11:03 AM, "Antone Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (This seems so intuitively obvious that I wouldn't think people would make XML that didn't work this way, but from the sound of it, there are examples out there of XML where c

Please Review: Dissemination of Earthquake / Tsunami data via Atom

2005-01-08 Thread Bob Wyman
At PubSub, we’re beginning to put together a live feed of earthquake and tsunami information in the hope that by making this information more widely and rapidly disseminated, we’ll be able to prevent at least a tiny amount of the troubles such as recently happened in the Indian Ocean. In co

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
I can't do everything simultaneously. Tomorrow I will give you a first version of an OWL document that will map the current atom spec. Can you give me the current namespace for the draft atom spec I am supposed to be working to? This is so the atom OWL document can describe the properties of th

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Antone Roundy
On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 02:59 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: Say your system is aggregating material from two sensors, and you get the following, one from each: http://123 2005-02-02 10.1 57.3 http://123 2005-02-03 7 It isn't clear how these should be merged - does the entry wit

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 12:06 AM +0100 1/9/05, Henry Story wrote: The "internet draft" I want to propose is an OWL document. I can get this out tomorrow. It will essentially say everything the current Atom OWL spec says, but in machine readable form. An OWL document is not an Internet Draft. If you cannot create an

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
On 9 Jan 2005, at 00:06, Henry Story wrote: The "internet draft" I want to propose is an OWL document. I can get this out tomorrow. It will essentially say everything the current Atom OWL spec says, Sorry it is past midnight here at I am typing a little fast. I meant "It will essentially say e

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
The "internet draft" I want to propose is an OWL document. I can get this out tomorrow. It will essentially say everything the current Atom OWL spec says, but in machine readable form. All that is required then is that the Atom IETF document this working group is working on have some language d

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 10:54 PM +0100 1/8/05, Henry Story wrote: The IETF document I mentioned is the one this mailing list is working on developing. Then you didn't understand Tim's message. He meant a *new* Internet draft, not a change to the current draft (unless the change is a few sentences). From your list of

Re: Comment on process

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 11:03 PM +0100 1/8/05, Danny Ayers wrote: I am optimistic a compromise on the extensibility/RDF issue can be reached in the given time frame, Good! but find the imposition of such a short period a bit extreme. The WG has been discussing this for *months*. The fact that the chairs have put an e

Re: Comment on process

2005-01-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Danny Ayers wrote: No-one gains anything from overly protracted discussion. But I don't seen any extraordinary circumstances that might justify the imposition of cloture. Is there something related to the (still unexplained) "deadline" mentioned in Tim's recent post? Tim

RE: Comment on process

2005-01-08 Thread Scott Hollenbeck
> No-one gains anything from overly protracted discussion. But > I don't seen any extraordinary circumstances that might > justify the imposition of cloture. Is there something related > to the (still unexplained) "deadline" mentioned in Tim's recent post? I'm not sure that I understand why yo

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:48:47 -0800, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:21 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > > Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. XML has containment. Individual > > specifications may assign it semantics. RDF/XML assigns it semantics > > corresponding to the RDF mo

Comment on process

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
I'm not going to argue the point here any further, but feel something has to be said. I am optimistic a compromise on the extensibility/RDF issue can be reached in the given time frame, but find the imposition of such a short period a bit extreme. It isn't that there hasn't been considerable work

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
The IETF document I mentioned is the one this mailing list is working on developing. The four points I listed are starting points for a couple of small additions to the Atom IETF document and their relation to a to be written OWL Ontology. There are I am sure people more familiar with the ins a

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jan 8, 2005, at 2:21 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. XML has containment. Individual specifications may assign it semantics. RDF/XML assigns it semantics corresponding to the RDF model. Without either the individual specification's definition, or a generalised interpretatio

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:13:57 -0800, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: > > > My answer to this question is that Atom doesn't have a model in terms > > of being able to talk about extension so there's no point discussing > > it. Extensibility i

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Sayre
Graham wrote: Well, for that example, it's not so necessary. But I've heard of one suggested usage being: Which would require reloading to maintain feature parity with non-external content. http://atompub.org/2004/10/20/draft-ietf-atompub-format-03.html#rfc.section.5.10.2 "If the value of type

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 8:33 PM +0100 1/8/05, Henry Story wrote: Here is one suggestion I was thinking of to move along, quickly and seamlessly I hope. All that seems fine, but your list is neither a Pace nor an Internet draft, and is therefore not in line with what Tim and I asked for. Given that you talk about an

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Graham
Well, for that example, it's not so necessary. But I've heard of one suggested usage being: Which would require reloading to maintain feature parity with non-external content. Graham smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Sayre
Graham wrote: I require this functionality in . There is aboslutely no way I'm initiating 20 HTTP requests (even HEADs) each time the feed is reloaded. Can you explain why you would need to initiate HTTP requests for ? I don't understand. ... ... ... Robert Sayre

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Graham
I require this functionality in . There is aboslutely no way I'm initiating 20 HTTP requests (even HEADs) each time the feed is reloaded. Graham smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

RE: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Jeremy Gray
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Bray > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:49 AM > To: 'Atom WG' > Subject: Closure on Extensibility & RDF > > [On behalf of Paul and myself:] > > The opinion has been forcefully expressed that Atom

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Sayre
Bill de hÓra wrote: http://example.com/somefile.mp3"; hash="{generated_hash_value}" hashalg="{uri_identifying_the_hash_algorithm_used" /> The hash and hashalg attributes would be optional but MUST appear together. Thoughts? (If we have more than two people respond favorably

RE: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Jeremy Gray
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill de hÓra > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:15 AM > To: 'Atom WG' > Subject: Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL --snip-- > Sam I'm tempted to use the 'put in the implementors guide' - calling

RE: Atom extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Jeremy Gray
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill de hÓra > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 8:04 AM > To: 'Atom WG' > Subject: Re: Atom extensibility --snip-- > I'm +1 on not requiring an RDF mapping for Atom. Those of us that like > to use RDF

RE: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Jeremy Gray
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Bray > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:14 AM > To: Bill de hÓra > Cc: 'Atom WG' > Subject: Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL --snip-- > The people who insist that you have to have to buy in

Re: Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
Here is one suggestion I was thinking of to move along, quickly and seamlessly I hope. 1. Atom will have an associated machine readable OWL document that defines each of the objects and properties described in the Atom syntax spec, with language that mirrors that of the spec. 1.1 Th

Closure on Extensibility & RDF

2005-01-08 Thread Tim Bray
[On behalf of Paul and myself:] The opinion has been forcefully expressed that Atom should adopt an extensibility framework based partly or wholly, directly or indirectly, on RDF. This idea is not unreasonable on the face of it. Thus, the time has now come to put this into a concrete proposal.

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 8, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: My answer to this question is that Atom doesn't have a model in terms of being able to talk about extension so there's no point discussing it. Extensibility is probably out of scope for the format. I'm not going to let that go unchallenged. The abi

Re: Hash for Links [Was: Re: Posted PaceEnclosuresAndPix]

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
http://example.com/somefile.mp3"; hash="{generated_hash_value}" hashalg="{uri_identifying_the_hash_algorithm_used" /> The hash and hashalg attributes would be optional but MUST appear together. Thoughts? (If we have more than two people respond favorably to this, I'll write up

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
David Powell wrote: But you can't then expect to merge two different instances of the entry under this model using simple RDF graph merging, because the model is an over-simplification. Eg: If you merged: http://123 2005-02-03 7 and http://123 2005-02-04 7.5 ... you would get: ht

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
On 8 Jan 2005, at 16:47, Roger B. wrote: I think this is a very nice example, and will show the power of seeing atom as RDF. Henry: I hope it isn't too depressing to know that, at least for this individual, it really doesn't. To me, you've just sketched out a solution in search of a problem... the

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: Would you be satisfied with a paragraph that says that those who extend Atom may do so by putting in namespaced elements, and that such elements, when the information they contain is relevant to an entry, SHOULD appear as a child of atom:entry? Replace 'extend' with 'add informat

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: GRDDL addresses the concerns of some participants, but I don't think it addresses the issues being raised by David Powell[0] and myself[1]. I think our question is this: where are extension elements part of the Atom model, and where do they constitute an extension of the Atom

Re: Atom extensibility, RDF, and GRDDL

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Sam Ruby wrote: In the case of RDF, there exists a standard means to associate a document with a mapping. This standard is called GRDDL. [1] [...] Meanwhile, it would not be harmful to mention this one element or attribute (anybody have a preference) in the specification. It's not clear to me t

Re: Atom extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: I think that the charter requirements on extensibility will be filled adequately with PaceExtendingAtom. I think they would be filled still better by adopting PaceMustUnderstandElement, but apparently others are unconvinced. Extensibility via a mapping to RDF seems to me to add

Re: Atom extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Bill de hÓra
David Powell wrote: I'd say that the most useful basic features of RDF are: 1) Property names are namespaced for extensibility. 2) Important entities can be assigned global identifiers so that they can be referred to externally. [...] We have 1), and 2) near enough already in Atom. David, I've s

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Roger B.
> I think this is a very nice example, and will show the power of seeing > atom as RDF. Henry: I hope it isn't too depressing to know that, at least for this individual, it really doesn't. To me, you've just sketched out a solution in search of a problem... there are far, far easier ways of getti

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Henry Story
I think this is a very nice example, and will show the power of seeing atom as RDF. If we accept that the atom syntax is an RDF syntax [Ø] then we can draw the two entries in the ascii graph notation [1] as follows. _f1 ---is a---> |head> |entry---> _e1 --is a--->

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:00:19 +, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Its a tradeoff between flexibility > and complexity. Indeed. There was recently some coverage on-list about using a richer model (in RDF), specifically to preserve provenance. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread David Powell
Saturday, January 8, 2005, 9:59:12 AM, you wrote: > Say your system is aggregating material from two sensors, and you get > the following, one from each: > > http://123 > 2005-02-02 > 10.1 > 57.3 > > > http://123 > 2005-02-03 > 7 > > It isn't clear how these should be merged

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:57:35 -0800, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And it also says > > 7 Sharp-eyed readers... I was only providing an example for demonstration purposes. Broad brush strokes. > > _:entry prism:embargoDate "2005-02-15" . > > > > The embargoDate is unambiguously

Re: RSS extensibility

2005-01-08 Thread Danny Ayers
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:39:41 -0700, Antone Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, January 7, 2005, at 03:53 PM, Danny Ayers wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0700, Antone Roundy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could you give an example of something useful that a real world > >