Atom License Extension
draft-snell-atompub-feed-license-11
Discuss
Yes
(Jari Arkko)
(Lisa Dusseault)
No Objection
(Bill Fenner)
(Brian Carpenter)
(Chris Newman)
(Dan Romascanu)
(David Kessens)
(Mark Townsley)
(Ross Callon)
(Russ Housley)
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 11 and is now closed.
Ted Hardie Former IESG member
Discuss
Discuss
[Treat as non-blocking comment]
(2007-01-10)
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RFC 4287 says: Atom allows the use of IRIs [RFC3987]. Every URI [RFC3986] is also an IRI, so a URI may be used wherever below an IRI is named. There are two special considerations: (1) when an IRI that is not also a URI is given for dereferencing, it MUST be mapped to a URI using the steps in Section 3.1 of [RFC3987] and (2) when an IRI is serving as an atom:id value, it MUST NOT be so mapped, so that the comparison works as described in Section 4.2.6.1. This document says: The IRI specified by the link's 'href' attribute SHOULD be dereferenceable to return a representation of the license. The license representation MAY be machine readable. That is, this document is specificying derferencable resources which MUST be mapped to URIs, according RFC 4287. I believe that this document would be clearer and implementations more likely to interoperate if this document stated that the URI form of the IRI is required.
Jari Arkko Former IESG member
Yes
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Lisa Dusseault Former IESG member
Yes
Yes
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Bill Fenner Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Brian Carpenter Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Chris Newman Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Cullen Jennings Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
(2007-01-09)
Unknown
I have some grief with the how they use the term "machine readable". To me that would imply that there was one or more formats of something were my application could figure out it was allows to say copy this or repost it. The example given does not seem machine readable to me and the document does not reference any machine readable formats or provide a negotiation form for them. I think the document is lacking an application to be able to interpret the license and if the application can not interpret the license, I see little value (other than saved bandwidth) of this over the <rights> tag. I don't see the document causing lots of harm - it just looks useless.
Dan Romascanu Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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David Kessens Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Lars Eggert Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
(2007-01-11)
Unknown
The example contains real URLs that should be converted to example.com ones: http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
Mark Townsley Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Ross Callon Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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Russ Housley Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection
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