RE: [syndication] Come on, let's move past this - Let's just choose a name!

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

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

> The polls are already running. Here are three places you all can express
> your approval or disapproval on the roadmap I posted:
>
> 1.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reallySimpleSyndication/surveys?id=10073724
>
> 2. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/surveys?id=687541
>
> 3.
> http://backend.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/approveR
> ssRoadmap

And you're not a fan of the format mine took and I, along with some others
on your reallysimplesyndication list, find yours not particularly even
handed.  I'm asking for one simple survey in a central place created without
load, something along the lines of:

  What's your choice on the RSS naming issue?

  a) RSS-* (where * is some branch name)
  b) Both sides choose completely different names
  c) Leave things as they are

No "Let's eliminate the confusion and move on" or any such verbage.

> I believe Mark is going to Europe next week and I think we're almost done
> anyway. Let's pick the names, leave RSS at 0.91 so Alis can write a simple
> FAQ, and let's move on to some cool software.

I'm all for moving on, as quickly as possible; just look at how quickly I
jumped on your proposal and sent you initial approval notes both private and
public.  But sweeping choice under the carpet for expediency's sake is not
what I believed community was all about.  It's not like folks aren't
speaking up; give them an unbiased way of doing so.

> About Jeff's story about X-Windows vs Microsoft Windows, he's right on the
> money. RSS is on its last legs. The only thing RSS has going for it is the
> large installed base grouped around 0.90 and 0.91.

In your eyes, Dave.  In your eyes.

> There's absolutely no
> time to waste in getting the market focused on the format, forget the 0.92
> additions, we'll market those separately, you must do the same with your
> work.

Agreed.

Rael