[Bug 7806] atom ID element generation for feed entries

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7806


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WORKSFORME




--- Comment #6 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-10-20 09:03:13 ---
> I still do not understand why it says "undereferencable". Is this a normative
> requirement?

Yes.


> If so, for what reason?

Because if you gave a ereferencable URL, people might be tempted to dereference
it, which would be bad, since it wouldn't point at the article in question.


> "The same <span>absolute URL</span> should be
> generated for each run of this algorithm when given the same
> input."
> 
> I think this should be a "must".

Certain UAs won't be able to guarantee that, e.g. because they store no state
and thus use a hash of the page and the page changes slightly each time the
page is loaded.


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