How to reduce feed size? (aka SSFF)

[Reduce] <feed> format [...] to a list of URIs pointing to <entry> (orig) i1

+1 +1 +0.5 +1 a11

only bandwidth increase is the HTTP headers in subsequent GETs of the individual entries. (orig) a3

[entry content is only ever retrieved once each change] (orig) a4

Removal of an entry can be implicitly handled by a 410 Gone (orig) a5

number of places that an <entry> document is available is reduced to one (orig) a6

This is something different than RSS-all-over-again. (orig) a7

[should have 'some' minimal metadata] (orig) i2

feedreaders must always look in two places to look for all of the information (orig) a15

metadata contained in the entry construct [is] advisory (the real metadata is in the entry). (orig) a16

+1 +1 +1 +1 a12

SOAP bindings [...] have to reauthenticate for every entry (orig) a2

How would that be different than re-authenticating with HTTP? (orig) a8

[feeds (entries) can have full content again] (orig) a10

Support both inline and content by reference (orig) i4

use feed flag to indicate content-by-reference (orig) i5

use different top-level element to indicate content-by-reference (orig) i6

only sends down the last n items newer than the If-Modified-Since date sent by the client (orig) i3

violates the HTTP spec (orig) a9

requires a 'live' server (orig) a14