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Re: Shipping Atom products prematurely


luke@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Quoting Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>: 

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...


Paul is suggesting that we do this for people publishing from the ietf draft specs (post-0.3).

As I understand it, the roadmap looks like this:

Atom 0.3
draft-ietf-atompub-00
draft-ietf-atompub-01
...
draft-ietf-atompub-NN
Atom 1.0

I believe that the goal is for there not to be another widely implemented draft until Last Call. Perhaps the chairs and secretary should explain this in more detail (I believe they have, I can't remember where to look).

My question is whether Mark N's proposal includes Atom 0.3. It's too late for that, IMHO. Aggregator authors have told us that consumers consider clients that don't support Atom 0.3 to be broken.

Robert Sayre