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

[Gary Teter <bigdog@bulldogbeach.com>]

on 8/21/00 4:21 PM, Dan Brickley at daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk wrote:

> 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

I >like< namespaces! And exactly for the reason that you mention. I'm just
not convinced of the necessity for RDF in content syndication.

If you're saying that namespaces requires the use of RDF, then by all means
let's go that route. But I don't believe that's true.

-- 
Gary Teter, Big Dog
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