Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-14.txt

[James M Snell <jasnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Gregorio wrote:
> 
> On 3/18/07, Robert Yates <robyates70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The blogging component expects posted atom entries to contain a
>> "content" element containing the blog post. The bookmarking component,
>> however, expects the "url to be bookmarked" to be contained in the
>> alternate "link" element within atom entries submitted to it.
> 
> That seems rather fragile, is there any reason
> not to have the server implementation look for the
> first link in the content if no alternate link
> is present? Any reason to not make the
> first link in the content, or a microformat,
> the primary way of adding a bookmark?
> 

There are lots of different ways we could do it.  Alternate links,
related links, links in the content, links in the summary, some
microformat, etc.  In a version one implementation of a new protocol
constraining the number of possible ways of accomplishing a single task
makes a lot more sense than trying to come up with n-alternative
possible ways of accomplishing it.  The alternate link is a natural
first choice.  If that proves to be too inflexible, alternative
approaches can be explored.

- James