Re: [syndication] Re: Forking, the name game, the politics of naming

["Mark Ketzler" <mketzler@bizslice.com>]

Ken,

> > The real question is who is forking? That is the name change
> > regardless of stakeholders' prior interest.
>
> Going back prior to 8/14 it's clear that there was large groups
> (regardless of how large) on both sides of the technical direction
> decision.
>
> If one can play "shouldas", what should of happened at that time is
> that both sides forked (or branched).

You are evading the question. Wasn't RSS already something, didn't it have
users and agrregators. So ...

RSS existed and was being used by lots of folk
Group A(including some of the RSS originators) wanted to make RSS extensible
etc.
Group B (including rest of the original group) wanted status quo

This is a fork by Group A why should Group B change the name of something
that existed. How do you defend this?  If the RSS-DEV WG is so concerned
about the RSS brand why are you tarnishing it with this name grab?