RE: Judging consensus for publishing Atompub-features on Standards Track

[Joe Cheng <Joe.Cheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> I am finding that Bill is right: boolean attributes are a design
> smell in XML vocabularies. I would suggest renaming the
> `required` attribute to `status` and changing the values from
> `yes` and `no` to `required` and `supported`; then it comes down
> to the simple addition of an `unsupported` value.

I'm fine with status="..." rather than booleans as long as we all
understand that the list of possible values should not be extended
once clients are out in the wild, unless there is also clear
guidance in the spec telling clients how to interpret status values
they don't understand.