Re: PaceErrVerb

[Greg Stein <gstein@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:03:41PM +0200, Danny Ayers wrote:
> Henry Story wrote:
> >I have added a PaceErrVerb to the wiki at
> >http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceErrVerb
> >
> >This is a formatted copy of what I sent the W3C's TAG mailing list. It 
> >will be interesting to see what their reaction is.
> 
> It's a novel and interesting idea, but I'm not convinced it meshes with 
> the rest [sic] of the architecture.

I think it fits in quite well. A new semantic, so a new method. This is
how HTTP is supposed to work...

> But even if it were the best thing
> since sliced bread, for practical reasons infrastructure changes to the 
> web are beyond what can really be considered within the scope of Atom.

It is important to this group if we need to refer to an error reporting
from our spec -- we'll need a normative reference. Even if we don't do
that, we still want to provide a "best practices" guide, and that should
refer to any mechanisms for reporting.

> If you really want to run the idea through a gauntlet, xml-dev might be 
> suitable:

Hunh? What the heck do they have to do with proposed HTTP methods???

Cheers,
-g