Subject: RE: RFC3229+feed: Empirical Evidence of significant savings.

From: "David Orchard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:43:48 -0700

I've been asking for classes of Atom processors for a while, so we can
figure out who is targeted with any "mustUnderstand" flag on content.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:owner-atom-
> [email-masked]] On Behalf Of Bjoern Hoehrmann
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 6:50 PM
> To: Dare Obasanjo
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: RFC3229+feed: Empirical Evidence of significant savings.
> 
> 
> * Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> >> Clearly, use of RFC3229+feed (status code 226)
> >> results in very impressive
> >> bandwidth savings. Given this, I think we should
> >> insist that every
> >> aggregator developer support this.
> >
> >Unless the Atom working group became "the aggregator
> >licensing board" this sounds out of scope to me.
> 
> No, it is common to define conformance criteria for specific classes
of
> products, for example SVG 1.1 defines "SVG Viewers", "SVG
Interpreter",
> "High-Quality Dynamic SVG Viewer", etc. it is perfectly in scope to
de-
> fine conformance requirements for Atom implementations.