FW: PRISM

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

I don't think this got through to the list.
    - [ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]

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From: "Ron Daniel" <rdaniel@interwoven.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 15:31:28 -0700
To: "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
Cc: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: PRISM

Aaron Swartz wrote:
> Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com> wrote:
> 
> > Given that Prism is made up of all the major CMS vendors, it would be
> > worth infiltrating the group to prompt them to include RSS as a subset
> > and hence make it available to every site that uses them.
> 
> That's an interesting idea. It would probably add some extra complication
> though, which they won't want, and it's not completely compatible
> with their
> way of doing things.
> 
> Ron, what do you think of this?

Making RSS part of the PRISM spec is probably not in the
interests of either group. I doubt that the RSS community
would want to cede change control of the spec to the PRISM
Working Group, which is open to any organization that wants
to join, as long as they can come up with has membership
dues. Second, as Aaron pointed out, it would add some more
stuff to our spec in an area that is not our core interest.

However, since PRISM's core purpose is to help content developers
cut costs and open new opportunities, defining a mapping from
PRISM to RSS seems like something our users would be interested in.

The PRISM group will be publishing a 'cookbook' of simple
implementation 'recipes' to help developers get started. A
stylesheet or application to generate RSS from PRISM seems like
a great thing to put into that cookbook.


> > ISTM that the
> > PRISM group are trying to solve a different problem entirely, even
> > though the source material is the same. As you say, it's curious that
> > the letters "RSS" can't be found on any of the major pages on their
> > site, even as a ref.
> 
> I had them add a blurb about RSS -- it should be in sometime soon.

In fact, that was added and went out with the 1.0 release of the
spec on April 9.

Regards,

Ron Daniel Jr.
(Co-chair of PRISM working group)
Standards Architect
Interwoven, Inc.
Tel: +1 415 778 3113
Fax: +1 415 778 3131
Email: rdaniel@interwoven.com

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