Re: Shipping Atom products prematurely

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:46 PM -0400 8/17/04, luke@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.

Do you mean the first two Internet Drafts, or the final RFC?

>  > 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...

There is some really-hard-to-miss education in the drafts.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium