Re: [syndication] Re: Total confusion in RSS-Land

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:40:54PM -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> Ideally, I'd like to see "blessing" of RSS by the W3C, and an
> acknowledgement of how it fits into the Semantic Web. However, I'd be
> against moving the spec into an official W3C WG. Do you think this would be
> just as good? Or at least a decent compromise?

The W3C doesn't generally 'rubber-stamp' standards developed elsewhere; they
like to take a hand in the development, to make sure that it represents its
members well.

The closest AFAIK is the XML Protocols WG taking on SOAP as a starting
point. Arguably, RSS (some version) could be submitted as a Note, and then
it might go on to become a WG in a similar manner.

(I'm not volunteering to do this, as I have a lot on my plate right now;
however, I'd be happy to help if others came to this conclusion).

I'm curious; why don't you want to see RSS go into a WG?

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Mark Nottingham
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