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Why GData/APP Fails as a General Purpose Editing Protocol for the Web

Stefan Tilkov,

Dare Obasanjo:

For this reason, we will likely standardize on a different RESTful protocol which I’ll discuss in a later post. However I thought it would be useful to describe the limitations we saw in the Atom Publishing Protocol which made it unsuitable as the data access protocol for a large class of online services.