Re: Atom revision tracking extension

James Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Tue, 02 November 2010 18:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: Atom revision tracking extension
From: James Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
To: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
Cc: Alistair Miles <alimanfoo@googlemail.com>, atom-syntax@imc.org
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Very nice to see some of this old work being revisited. I am all for
updating and revitalizing the draft so long as there are people taking the
time to implement and provide feedback. If you can, please post a note here
with any issues you think need to be resolved and I will update the draft
accordingly.

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Hey Alistair,
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Alistair Miles <alimanfoo@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Generally speaking, we've found this to be a very useful feature in
> several
> > applications, and would be interested in revisiting James' original I-D
> if
> > anyone else was.
> >
> > I think the draft would need updating to deal with a couple of relatively
> > minor issues we've worked around, and the fact that the new tombstones
> draft
> > [3] overlaps (see [4]). But for the most part, it works well as-is, for
> us
> > at least.
>
> I would definitely be interested in a revision to Atom Syndication
> Format Revision Tracking [1] to work better with Atom Tombstones [2],
> and also Link Relation Types for Simple Version Navigation between Web
> Resources (RFC 5829) [3].
>
> I'd be curious to hear how you are using the extension in the work you
> are doing, if you had a blog post in you, or if it could be posted
> here. Being able to express version relations on the web is very
> important for digital library applications.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-atompub-revision-00
> [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-atompub-tombstones
> [3] http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc5829
>
>