RE: Tombstones

[Steven Lees <Steven.Lees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Snell wrote:

> A common thread across all these scenarios is the need to explicitly
> indicate the fact that an entry has been removed from a feed.  Given
> that, it would make sense to have a commonly defined tombstone
> mechanism.

I agree that this is probably the case, but I'd be more confident about that if I were more clear on exactly what scenarios are most important to people. Things like ability to un-delete affect the tombstone design. I could see two separate designs making sense, although it would be nice if there was a super/subset relationship between them.

Steven