You should talk to the standards committee to have the document corrected,
then.

myk wrote:

You should talk to the standards committee to have the document corrected,
then.

Perhaps I was unclear before, but when I said that feeds are "lists of related
information" I was quoting from the spec:

http://atompub.org/2005/08/17/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.html#rfc.section.1

And when I said that an "Atom Feed Document" is merely "a representation of an
Atom feed" rather than the feed itself, I was also quoting from the spec:

http://atompub.org/2005/08/17/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.html#rfc.section.2

Finally, when I quoted the numerous conditions (in particular republication)
under which the atom:id element must not change, I was quoting from the spec:

http://atompub.org/2005/08/17/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.html#rfc.section.4.2.6

It's pretty clear that the Atom 1.0 spec that was published by the IETF
standards committee standardizing the Atom syndication format does not support
the idea that feed IDs should change every time a user loads a feed document
over the web. Rather, it defines feeds as lists of related information, says
that feed IDs must uniquely identify feeds, and requires them to stay the same
every time documents representing those feeds are loaded.

Ok, experimenting with alternate ids and stuff...

Changed to just the permalink, without the extra crap to make a unique URL like
the spec's unclear language appears to ask for.

myk wrote:

Thanks Brion, I appreciate the quick fix!