Re: [syndication] NameSplitting

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

What a wonderful thing to wake up to this morning.

I'll have to agree with both camps on this one - when Dave suggests brand
new names, I agree - RSS needs to burst into the flames of a newly renamed
phoenix, with no drudgeries of the pass.

In some aspects, though, I agree with the other camp, "make sure people
know that this is related to RSS". The negatives outweigh the positives
though - I *can* see confusion and frustration: "ooooo. a *third* and
*fourth* RSS standard? how flippin' pointless is this?".

I like Julian Bond's suggestion of RDFSS for the 1.0 block. Actually, now
that I look over his names, I like both of his suggestions, which kinda
seems contradictory to the above <g>... They're similar to RSS, but not
enough so to immediately suggest a pointless linking (much like XML and
XML-RPC aren't "similar").

At 10:00 PM -0700 5/29/01, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>If we change names away from RSS, we loose what little momentum we
>have. If we change the names so that they are fundamentally
>different, people don't link them in their minds, and they become
>competing efforts in the user space, not just the developer space.

Perhaps, but the little momentum we have is one of baby-steppish confusion.

At 8:46 PM -0700 5/29/01, Dave Winer wrote:
>5. I could indeed withdraw from further discussions and work on RSS.

I don't want this.

At 9:20 PM -0700 5/29/01, Jeff Barr wrote:
>Definitely. Perhaps we could rename RSS to "HSL" - Headline Syndication

I don't like the name, personally. It suddenly makes other uses of RSS
"wrong" by not being a headline. I know some people using RSS to spit out
quotes, and hadn't you mentioned something on your manillasite about
someone using it from restaurant menu's or something similar? Perhaps
"Minimal Syndication Language"?

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