Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Sylvain Hellegouarch
Eric Scheid wrote: > On 15/12/06 7:29 AM, "Sylvain Hellegouarch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Besides, if you want to do fancy thing with a member, simply post a >> media resource which is an atom entry. This won't be modified by the >> server and will solely be treated a media resource. > >

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Joe Gregorio
On 12/14/06, Lisa Dusseault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This requirement has to be stated explicitly, at least as a SHOULD. This is the kind of thing that clients come to completely rely on, and then you find some special-purpose server that decides this doesn't fit in its model. "Well, the spec

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Joe Gregorio
On 12/14/06, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe I first saw this in a response made by Roy Fielding to an assertion that servers must treat HTTP PUT as a bit-for-bit copy, but I can't immediately find the reference. http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05425.html In an

Re: Atom Entry Documents

2006-12-14 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:40:01 +0100, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quite a few folks seemed to have a preference to a separate doc. What does "quite a few folks" mean wrt consensus? What reasons are there not to include this in the APP specification? -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:00:17 +0100, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between

Re: Atom Entry Documents

2006-12-14 Thread James M Snell
Quite a few folks seemed to have a preference to a separate doc. - James Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:39:25 +0100, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Ideally, I would much rather this be a WG draft. I pinged Tim about it >> the other day and he suggested that I

Re: Atom Entry Documents

2006-12-14 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:39:25 +0100, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ideally, I would much rather this be a WG draft. I pinged Tim about it the other day and he suggested that I go ahead with a I-D for now and that we can explore whether or not to move forward with it as a WG draft

Re: Atom Entry Documents

2006-12-14 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:25:44 +0100, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] So I see no downside in James doing an I-D. But is a separate I-D really necessary? If, like Kyle Marvin suggests, the new MIME type for Atom Entries actually becomes a type parameter of the existing Atom MIME t

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Scheid
On 15/12/06 7:29 AM, "Sylvain Hellegouarch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides, if you want to do fancy thing with a member, simply post a > media resource which is an atom entry. This won't be modified by the > server and will solely be treated a media resource. promise? does the spec support

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Eric Scheid
On 14/12/06 3:23 PM, "Bob Wyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Define ;type=feed and ;type=entry as optional parameters. (i.e. get them > defined, registered, and "ready to use.") > 2) Leave RFC4287 unchanged. i.e. do NOT re-define "application/atom-xml" > 3) New specifications MAY require that

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Sylvain Hellegouarch
> > I believe I first saw this in a response made by Roy Fielding to an > assertion that servers must treat HTTP PUT as a bit-for-bit copy, but I > can't immediately find the reference. > Could it be? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006OctDec/0228.html - Sylvain

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Sam Ruby
Lisa Dusseault wrote: Can a server ever ignore part of an edit and successfully process the rest? Yes. Think of a client that throws in a slew of random link elements with relations my server implementation doesn't understand. Same with foreign markup. The server is in charge. I complete

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Sam Ruby
Tim Bray wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the media-type-parameter opt

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Sylvain Hellegouarch
>>> Can a client modify an entry to contain a link relation element in the >>> following cases: >>> - To point to a resource on a different server entirely? >> >> There is no reason to believe that any of these resource are on >> the same machine to begin with. I could POST to media to machine A

Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

2006-12-14 Thread Lisa Dusseault
Thanks for responding to my review. I look forward to seeing a revised draft. Below I've excerpted the stuff that is still giving me serious problems. On Dec 7, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Joe Gregorio wrote: Can a client modify an entry to contain a link relation element in the following cases

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread John Panzer
Tim Bray wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the media-type-parameter opt

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread John Panzer
Tim Bray wrote: Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the media-type-parameter opt

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/14, Tim Bray: Bob Wyman wrote: > There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking > those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the media-type-parame

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread James M Snell
I've found the arguments in favor of the type param to be more convincing than those in favor of the new media type... ...so +1 to what Bob said. - James Tim Bray wrote: > > Bob Wyman wrote: >> There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid >> breaking those existing implementa

Re: Atom Entry docs "what Bob said"

2006-12-14 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
"yeah what Bob said" I'm not sure it is ideal, but it seems the closest to consensus we're ever going to get. +1 On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Rogers Cadenhead wrote: --- Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Define ;type=feed and ;type=entry as optional parameters. (i.e. get them defin

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Kyle Marvin
+1 to "yeah, what Bob said". We'll still have to manage the transition around clients that don't send "type=entry" to GData services, but if we can point at an APP spec where this param is required on POST/PUT, it's possible to push through this. -- Kyle On 12/14/06, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Sylvain Hellegouarch
> > Bob Wyman wrote: >> There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking >> those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. > > In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split > between the new-media-type option and the media-type-parameter option. >

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Tim Bray
Bob Wyman wrote: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. In case you haven't noticed, the WG is hopelessly split between the new-media-type option and the media-type-parameter option. If a few peo

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Mark Baker
On 12/14/06, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 13, 2006, at 17:51, Mark Baker wrote: > But > given that an alternative exists which shouldn't break those servers, > why not use it when there's no apparent downside? The downside is that implementations that (quite reasonably) assu

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Rogers Cadenhead
--- Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Define ;type=feed and ;type=entry as optional > parameters. (i.e. get them > defined, registered, and "ready to use.") > 2) Leave RFC4287 unchanged. i.e. do NOT re-define > "application/atom-xml" > 3) New specifications MAY require that ;type=entry > b

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 13, 2006, at 17:51, Mark Baker wrote: But given that an alternative exists which shouldn't break those servers, why not use it when there's no apparent downside? The downside is that implementations that (quite reasonably) assume that application/atom+xml == feed are also reasonable

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-14 Thread Thomas Broyer
2006/12/14, Bob Wyman: There is, I think, a compromise position here which will avoid breaking those existing implementations which follow the existing RFC's. It was exactly the point behind my proposal for this 'type' parameter. -- Thomas Broyer