Site-wide vs. entry-specific protocol elements

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings again. The discussion on this list covers two different 
topics that we might want to keep in separate documents. The things 
we're talking about most now are protocol elements for sites (and we 
still don't have a good definiton of sites), while the main 
atompub-protocol document is specific to entries.

I propose that we *don't* add any site-wide protocol elements to the 
current atompub-protocol document, but insteand create one or more 
documents for the site-wide changes. There are a couple of advantages 
to this:

- Implementers who only want to help users add/edit/delete entries 
won't have to deal with the other stuff

- It will allow us to more likely meet our WG deadlines on the 
entry-specific protocol document

- It will give this group a bit more leeway in defining what a "site" 
is without feeling rushed about the already-done entry stuff

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium