Re: [syndication] More thoughts...

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

More mail came in after this... don't think it will fly... ah, well.


On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:35:38PM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> Well. That's a lot of messages in one evening.
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> I don't think we're ready for a poll right yet. 
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> Question - 
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> How about 0.9x (all of them) keeps the RSS name, 1.0 goes to
> RSS-Semantic?
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> This is a compromise. There is an argument that it will be confusing
> to users, but no more than the difference between 0.9 and 0.91, I
> think. It says that yes, the RDF tree came out of the same swamp, but
> they're on a different track now. 0.9x arguably has the moral
> advantage (to balance the half-name-change), as it is the root;
> -semantic is a subclass, a special case, an anomoly, if you will.
> 
> RSS 0.9 might even be referred to as RSS-Semantic 0.9. Has a certain
> symmetry to it.
> 
> Just putting it out there...
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