Community consensus

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

I asked a simple question, and as before, it's made to appear more
complicated than it actually is. The claim has been made, offlist, that
there was a community consensus to move to namespaces and RDF and modules.
If there was such a consensus, now is the time to show where the record of
that is. Ken provided a pointer, but it's not what I asked for, because no
one asked "Is it OK if we call this RSS 1.0?"

The great thing about eGroups is that no one can tamper with the record. If
there was a consensus, it *must* be evident here. I went to the trouble to
read the archives over the summer. There isn't that much to read. I found no
evidence that the question was ever asked on this list. I know for a fact
that I was never asked to vote on the transition, and I don't think the
general membership of this list was asked either. It could be that I missed
the message, or it could be as it appears, that the question was asked of
people who were known to support the path that Rael wanted to pursue. This
hardly can be seen as community consensus. I could ask my cat where she
wants RSS to go, and she might even agree with me (probably not), but that
wouldn't be the same thing as community consensus. ;->

I'm going to ask some well-respected technologists and journalists to take a
look at this. I have also been able to get in contact with people at
AOL/Netscape (it wasn't that hard). I want to give everyone a chance to get
on the record, this is the place to do that. This could be resolved quite
quickly with no wasted emotional energy, and I hope that's what happens.
Thanks.

Dave