[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:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #23 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-10-22 12:39:24 ---
"SHOULD" doesn't mean "MAY".

It's a must in the Atom WG because (I presume) they assumed that it wouldn't be
difficult to come up with unique IDs, and thus all software could do it. I do
not share that assumption. Not following the SHOULD in the HTML5 spec means you
are violating Atom, which isn't ok, but that's a problem for the Atom spec. I
do not think that being unable to generate a stable ID should be grounds for
saying you aren't conforming to HTML, even if you aren't conforming to Atom.

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I think the spec is making the right tradeoff here.


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