Re: PaceFeedRecursive

2005-01-13 Thread Walter Underwood
--On Thursday, January 13, 2005 06:55:53 PM -0500 Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The proposal apparently is for feeds to contain other feeds by containment. My question is whether it would make sense to also support feeds containing other feeds by reference, perhaps via a link element or via a

Re: PaceFeedRecursive

2005-01-13 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jan 13, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: I realize that the proposal isn't flushed out, but a question nevertheless. The proposal apparently is for feeds to contain other feeds by containment. My question is whether it would make sense to also support feeds containing other feeds by refere

Close PaceUriReferences

2005-01-13 Thread David Powell
I think that PaceUriReferences can be closed. It seems to have been incorporated into the -04 draft as part of the "Update URI terms for 2396bis" revision. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceUriReferences -- Dave

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Joe Gregorio
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:16:07 -0800, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > > > +1. > > The other Tim Bray, speaking as co-chair, observes that > PaceMustUnderstandElement is hopelessly dead, with apparently no > support and lots of detractors. T

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Walter Underwood
Excellent examples. Each of these could be handled without mustUnderstand. Define an extension for entries. Put the restricted content inside the extension. The extension would include the display constraints between the content portions and the disclaimer or authentication portions. This could mea

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Tim Bray wrote: +1. The other Tim Bray, speaking as co-chair, observes that PaceMustUnderstandElement is hopelessly dead, with apparently no support and lots of detractors. Thank you. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming. -Tim

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Sayre
Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:29 PM, David Powell wrote: Does anyone have any example use cases for mustUnderstand? 1. A stream of financial disclosures from a public company in a highly-regulated industry. The legislation is very clear that they may not say anything in public unaccompa

Re: PaceFeedRecursive

2005-01-13 Thread Sam Ruby
Roy T. Fielding wrote: I just created a starting point for a proposal on making the feed element recursive, eliminating the need for RDF syntax, atom:head, and a bunch of things proposed in other paces regarding aggregators and digital signatures. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceFeedRecu

Re: Posted PaceExtensionConstruct

2005-01-13 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 03:31 PM, David Powell wrote: If there is some way to lose atom:notation without introducing ambiguity it would be better (if something is needed, what about atom:type as used on content - might that be a suitable replacement?) How about: "a Structured Extension

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Graham
On 13 Jan 2005, at 10:46 pm, Tim Bray wrote: 1. A stream of financial disclosures from a public company in a highly-regulated industry. The legislation is very clear that they may not say anything in public unaccompanied by disclaimers and limitation-of-liability statements. The financial indu

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Roger B.
> Are you saying that Atom 1.0 should not be extendable at all? Paul: Not at all. I'm simply saying that "must understand" gives influential publishers the power to force the hands of developers, something that RSS (wisely) doesn't provide. In addition, I have a philosophical objection, which I

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 03:29 PM, Roger B. wrote: But how likely is it that the problems will outweigh the benefits? Antone: Extremely, in my opinion. A big -1 on this one. All it will take is an A-lister or three on a mission to essentially force every general-use client developer to su

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 03:34 PM, Graham wrote: The main problem ince a possibly large percentage won't implement it, using mustUnderstand in a feed doesn't prevent whatever dire consequences there might be of ignoring the elements that must be understood, which makes the proposed sys

Re: Top 100s

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Sayre
Danny Ayers wrote: fyi, Dare has blogged on "Syndicating Ordered Lists" pointing to Netflix's rather thin RSS 2.0 feed, pointing to some holes in the format(s). I know this scenario came up a while back somewhere around 'order', I'm not really sure how well covered it is now (or needs to be). OK, t

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 4:29 PM -0600 1/13/05, Roger B. wrote: All it will take is an A-lister or three on a mission to essentially force every general-use client developer to support whatever pet extension they're fired up about that week, no matter how ill-conceived. Are you saying that Atom 1.0 should not be extenda

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 13, 2005, at 2:29 PM, David Powell wrote: Does anyone have any example use cases for mustUnderstand? 1. A stream of financial disclosures from a public company in a highly-regulated industry. The legislation is very clear that they may not say anything in public unaccompanied by disclaime

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Graham
On 13 Jan 2005, at 9:56 pm, Antone Roundy wrote: 3. We don't need it That's #1 above #1 is dependent on there not being prior art. Even if there were, we still wouldn't need it. and it won't be implemented anywhere Given the utter simplicity of implementation, I think it will be implemented in m

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread David Powell
Does anyone have any example use cases for mustUnderstand? -- Dave

Re: Posted PaceExtensionConstruct

2005-01-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, January 13, 2005, 8:17:58 PM, you wrote: > Danny Ayers wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:45:07 +, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I very much like the general approach of this Pace, I reckon it's very >> close to what's needed. >> >> If there is some way to lose at

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Roger B.
> But how likely is it that the problems will > outweigh the benefits? Antone: Extremely, in my opinion. A big -1 on this one. All it will take is an A-lister or three on a mission to essentially force every general-use client developer to support whatever pet extension they're fired up about th

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 01:51 PM, Graham wrote: On 13 Jan 2005, at 6:36 pm, Tim Bray wrote: The objections to this fall into two forms: 1. We don't have prior art in the syndication space that proves this is needed. 2. This is someone else's problem, e.g. SOAP 3. We don't need it That's

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Graham
On 13 Jan 2005, at 6:36 pm, Tim Bray wrote: The objections to this fall into two forms: 1. We don't have prior art in the syndication space that proves this is needed. 2. This is someone else's problem, e.g. SOAP 3. We don't need it and it won't be implemented anywhere and it's extremely open to

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Scheid
-1 I still have misgivings about the underlying model, mainly due to it's binary nature. What happens if at some future point we want to rev the definition of some element which has already been revved once before in it's history? It already has the mU wart, and thus version 3 of that element wou

AtomPubIssuesList for 2005/01/11 - REVISED

2005-01-13 Thread Sam Ruby
Based on input received, I've moved PacePropertyDesign to the Recommended for Closure category, and added PaceExtensionConstruct to the Currently Under Discussion category. - Sam Ruby

Re: Posted PaceExtensionConstruct

2005-01-13 Thread Sam Ruby
Danny Ayers wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:45:07 +, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I very much like the general approach of this Pace, I reckon it's very close to what's needed. If there is some way to lose atom:notation without introducing ambiguity it would be better (if something is

PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
+1. The objections to this fall into two forms: 1. We don't have prior art in the syndication space that proves this is needed. 2. This is someone else's problem, e.g. SOAP I can see both those arguments, but when I re-visit and re-read this, the implementation is so falling-off-a-log obvious, l

PaceExtensibilityAndVersioningNoScenarios

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
-0 I could live with this, but PaceMusUnderstandElement achieves 80% of the benefit at 20% of the cost. -Tim

PaceSupersede

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
-1 There are as many notions of versioning in the world as there are applications in the world, and "supersedes" model, while not that untypical, is far from universal. It doesn't deserve to get special treatment in Atom core. -Tim

PaceExtensionNamespace

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
-1 Way too complex, feels like a negative return on the complexity/benefit trade-off. -Tim

PaceAltExtensibilityAndVersioning

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
-1 I think we can and should do without a version number. -Tim

PaceExtendingAtom

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
+1 I wrote it and I still think it's necessary as a bare-minimum measure. -Tim

PaceMinimalEntryVersioning

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
-1 I think this issue has been discussed to death and the current consensus around atom:id and atom:updated will meet users' needs simply and elegantly. Trying to achieve consensus on a generalized abstract model of versioning is doomed to failure. -Tim

PacePropertyDesign

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
This one shouldn't, in my opinion, be on our active-discussion queue, because it's uncooked. That is to say, it doesn't actually propose specific changes to our format or protocol drafts. Having said that, the thinking seems usefully clean and minimal, and I wouldn't be surprised if a real Pac

PaceExtensibilityAndVersioning

2005-01-13 Thread Tim Bray
-0 I could live with this, but I think PaceMustUnderstandElement buys 80% of the benefit with 20% of the cost/apparatus. -Tim

Top 100s

2005-01-13 Thread Danny Ayers
fyi, Dare has blogged on "Syndicating Ordered Lists" pointing to Netflix's rather thin RSS 2.0 feed, pointing to some holes in the format(s). I know this scenario came up a while back somewhere around 'order', I'm not really sure how well covered it is now (or needs to be). http://www.25hoursaday

Re: Anybody started a test suite of valid/invalid feeds?

2005-01-13 Thread Sam Ruby
Norman Walsh wrote: I'd feel more confident about my RELAX NG grammar if I could feed more than my own two or three test cases through it. What we have is here: http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/ConformanceTests If anybody knows of more, please add it to the list. - Sam Ruby

Re: PaceMustUnderstandElement

2005-01-13 Thread Roger B.
> the > cost must be kept very near zero. Tim: Agreed, although I'm not sure that's possible. Right now, if someone subscribes to a feed and gets nothing, I can say "Look, the publisher is producing ill-formed XML/invalid Atom/etc." and leave it at that. I've got a legitimate finger to point. Bu

Re: PaceMinimalEntryVersioning

2005-01-13 Thread Roger B.
> I'm in favor of this--it's easy enough to imagine uses for it (like a > feed showing the history of a particular entry). Antone: I'm +0 about it, but it might be a good idea to include some pointed warnings for publishers. Some client apps are going to use the first entry in the feed, some the

Head:id vs entry:id

2005-01-13 Thread Brett Lindsley
This may be an obvious question and I may have missed something in the discussion, but can someone clarify why the head:id is optional (MAY) whereas the entry:id is required (MUST)? Having a unique way to identify a feed may be useful to associate a group of entries (with "heads in entries") obtai

Re: xml without rdf, but with an ontology [0]

2005-01-13 Thread Henry Story
Tim Bray, Roy Fielding and other have recently made some interesting comments on the atom list saying that xml's tree structure has an implicit semantics. If this is the case then one should be able to map any xml into triple space graph. There is no special need for any special rdf/xml. So let me

Anybody started a test suite of valid/invalid feeds?

2005-01-13 Thread Norman Walsh
I'd feel more confident about my RELAX NG grammar if I could feed more than my own two or three test cases through it. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Great success is commoner than real h

Re: Questions about -04

2005-01-13 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman Walsh wrote: |> 2. Why MUST a feed point to an alternate version. What if the feed is all |>I publish? I feel I should say that I was just asking the question, I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other. My attention has been el

Re: Posted PaceExtensionConstruct

2005-01-13 Thread Danny Ayers
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:45:07 +, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I very much like the general approach of this Pace, I reckon it's very close to what's needed. If there is some way to lose atom:notation without introducing ambiguity it would be better (if something is needed, what abo

Re: Questions about -04

2005-01-13 Thread Lucas Gonze
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Martin Duerst wrote: I don't see any clear justification in the above mail thread for having the restriction. And I think that in a very fundamental way, it's a mistake; feeds should be architected as independent technology, not as an adjunct to Web pages. I also see no reason

Re: Questions about -04

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Duerst
At 06:54 05/01/13, Sam Ruby wrote: > >Norman Walsh wrote: >> 2. Why MUST a feed point to an alternate version. What if the feed is all >>I publish? > >Deja vu: > >http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg08836.html > >I'm -1 on removing this restriction. I don't see any clear justificatio

Re: Posted PaceExtensionConstruct

2005-01-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, January 13, 2005, 1:34:24 AM, you wrote: > On 13 Jan 2005, at 1:28 am, David Powell wrote: >> It needs to be like this: (because namespace defaults don't apply to >> attributes.) >> >> http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-04";> >> ... >> >> http://purl.org/atom/n