Brian Smith wrote:
James's tombstone proposal is almost free performance-wise. It is easier to implement, in my experience.
FWIW, I've just added tombstone support to our feed reader based on James's initial tombstone draft. A tombstone entry looks something like this:
<deleted-entry id="urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a" xmlns="http://purl.org/atompub/tombstones/1.0"; />As you say, this is pretty easy to implement. I added it mostly for use with private feeds, but it would cool in the future if there were servers that supported this in comment feeds for deleting spam. If not, well at least it's met my personal needs. Nothing else that's been proposed here comes close.
Regards James