Re: Shipping Atom products prematurely

[luke@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>:
> So far, we have only seen the pre-IETF version 0.3 in the wild. I
> have heard of zero reports of implementations of the -00 or -01
> drafts that have been seen in feeds. This is a Very Good Thing. FWIW,
> the 0.3 version doesn't even exist as an IETF Internet Draft.

I've seen a few Atom 0.2 feeds in the wild, but agree that these are very sparse
and therefore not much of a problem. Atom started getting much more popular
with 0.3 though, so I expect this to become a bigger problem when the next
version is published.

> Until the final, standardized version, the documents will make it
> clear that implementers should only implement for internal use. If we
> find some implementers creating feeds from pre-standards IETF drafts,
> a bit of quick public education can probably fix the problem.

hmm... seems to me that "a bit of quick public education" might be overdue
here... quite a few Atom 0.3 implementations out there that aren't internal...