RE: [syndication] Re: RFC: Clearing confusion for RSS, agreement for forward motion

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Dave,

> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]

> >>Continued development only serves to help promote RSS and
> enable folks to
> use it to create good works.
>
> Emphatically -- NO!

Quite frankly, your "I"s and "NO!"s are speaking louder than your emphatic
claims that you are not the owner of RSS and that it belongs to the
community.  All I've been asking for, all evening, is to find a way of
allowing the rest to speak and be counted.

> Continued development of "RSS" only feeds the controversy over what it is.

Hand-waving only feeds the controversy and I'm asking that we find a way to
no longer need it.

> Let it rest in peace.

Your desire to have RSS rest in peace is very much in opposition to the
community at large that seems to want it to grow -- only how, is the
question.  So I'm asking "how?"  Can we go to a poll, please!

> Damn. It's so simple.
>
> You didn't create it, so leave it alone already. Create something new.
> That's what you've done. Stop trying to take the old thing some
> place where
> only you and a handful of other people, most of whom don't even
> participate
> your working group, wanted it to go.

I'm not having this discussion on RSS-DEV.  I'm having it here, with the
RSS* community as a whole.  If folks want RSS to go no further as RSS, I
*want* to hear that, from those who like the new tags in 0.92 and RDF'ers.
That's why I'm suggesting a very simple poll.

Rael