RE: Shipping Atom products prematurely

["Bob Wyman" <bob@xxxxxxxx>]

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> I think the WG should proactively contact vendors of consumer
> products and services and ask them to refrain from integrating
> Atom support until it's done.
	I don't get it. Just a few months ago, the fact that
LiveJournal, Blogger, and Typepad supported Atom 0.3 was proclaimed to
be a wonderful thing. Now, some seem to be saying that it is bad if
others do what was once considered good. How can this make sense?
	When you speak of "Atom" what is it that you are referring to?
Is it the Atom 0.3 that people were once encouraged to support or is it
the Atom format that is being defined in ID's today? I can understand if
you say that people shouldn't ship support for Atom as defined in the
IETF ID's, however, how can you object to people implementing what
LiveJournal, Blogger, Typepad, and many others have implemented and been
acclaimed for implementing?
	I realize that it will be messy getting people to move from Atom
0.3 to Atom 1.0. However, this is no more messy then getting them to
move from any of the many flavors of RSS.

		bob wyman