Another suggestion was that we do away with the Atom autodiscovery <link> element and just use an HTTP header, because parsing HTML is perceived as being hard and parsing HTTP headers is perceived as being simple. This does not work for Bob either, because he has no way to set arbitrary HTTP headers. It also ignores the fact that the HTML specification explicitly states that all HTTP headers can be replicated at the document level with the <meta http-equiv="..."> element. So instead of requiring clients to parse HTML, we should just require them to parse HTTP headers… and HTML.