Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Gary Teter wrote:

> RSS is in a lot of ways a "populist" spec. This is a point that's been made
> more eloquently before by others, so I won't belabor it here, except to say
> that I think the decision to base RSS 1.0 on version 0.9 instead of 0.91
> feels kind of "ivory tower" to me.

on the contrary, our use of namespaces is there to get _away_ from the
"ivory tower" situation where only the maintainers of the core spec get
to create / define interesting new stuff. --danbri