Re: [syndication] Some suggestions for RSS .92

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

To Tristan, I'm uncomfortable voting for the <date> element unless there's a
spec that says how it fits into the 0.91 spec. The actual proposed language
for an 0.92 spec would be great.

Jeff I'm not an expert on Dublin Core either, but I suggest we not go down
that slippery slope. Keep it simple.

Also, taxonomy is a big subject. The last time there were serious open
discussions about next steps in RSS (in the May-June timeframe) this was put
on the table by Dale Dougherty at O'Reilly, and we had done some
experimentation on it at UserLand. One of my jobs for this morning will be
to dig up that thread and see what we did.

I also want to work out a simple XML-RPC/SOAP integration, I want to make a
channel subscribable, so that the publisher calls the subscriber when
there's an update.

Finally, I had a meeting with the ICE Working Group a few weeks ago. I'm
going to help them come up with a "lite" version that is philosophically
compatible with RSS 0.91 and any successors (but not the
Namespaces-RDF-modular thread, which I don't see as being philosophically
compatible with RSS 0.91). They don't want to adopt RSS syntax, but they
want to offer current RSS syndicators an easy way to participate in their
networks. I think this is a good goal. They have an ICE "cookbook" which is
easy to follow, I've asked for an HTML version of this document, and expect
that we'll simplify it even more, and see where we can take it.

Dave