feedTheir Internet RFC is bigger than your Web Platform
November 01, 2007 | 
co.mments
Dare Obasanjo asks "When will GData be RFC5023 compliant?":
"In a previous post I entitled One Protocol to Rule Them All and in the Darkness Bind Them I pointed out that since the Atom Publishing Protocol is not a good fit for interacting with data types that aren’t microcontent, it would need to be embraced and extended to satisfy those needs. In addition, this leads to problems because different vendors will embrace and extend it in different ways which fragments interoperability."
Batching is not a content problem. Dare's been told about this before. when in trying and failing to cast doubt on AtomPub's general applicability with 3 non-problems, I pointed out two actual problems. One of those was batch uploads.
"An alternative approach would be for vendors to utilize protocols that are better suited for the job instead of creating incompatible versions of a standard protocol."
That might mean not-HTTP. Really, batching is a fundamentally difficult and deceptive issue. It was intentionally kicked out of scope for AtomPub; we simply didn't know enough to standardize it, and that's the Right Thing for a working group to do. Anyway, I'm sure all those big brains at all those big web properties could figure something out and write an I-D.
November 1, 2007 09:59 PM