Re: [syndication] New poll for syndication

[Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>]

this survey just appeared in my mailbox. i think it misses out the most
important option: reuniting RSS under a broad pluralist banner. So...

(d) "I have some other opinion":
We should start working together again, under the broad and well know
banner of "RSS".  DTDs, namespaces, RDF,
XHTML, XSLT and all that are dull geeky things that we can largely hide
from users of (the various flavours of) RSS. Just as content producers
currently manage to survive in a world where there are numerous flavours
of HTML, of image formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, ...), etc., they'll get by in
a world with various off-the-shelf RSS flavours too. But they'l find it
a lot easier if we don't give them contrary names and abandon any
attempts to collaborate on a shared story.

danbri

On 2 Jun 2001 syndication@yahoogroups.com wrote:

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> Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
> syndication group:
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> RSS has a long and varied history; noone
> (except possibly Netscape,
> who don't seem to care) can claim to
> 'own' the name. There are Two
> current, somewhat separate RSS formats;
> RSS 0.9x, based on the later   
> work from Netscape, and RSS 1.0, based
> on the original, RSS 0.9.
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> This has caused problems in the RSS
> developer community, and is
> perceived to cause problems in the RSS
> user community, especially as   
> evangelization efforts try to move
> forward. The proper course of
> action has been the subject of much
> debate; this poll is intended to
> express the will of the content
> syndication community, whether
> developer, publisher and end user, in
> the resolution of this issue.
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> The results of this poll can only be
> considered an expression of the
> preferences of this mailing lists'
> members. As such, it is not binding, but
> it can help determine what should be done.
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>   o I would like to see RSS split into two efforts with completely new,  non-RSS names, while leaving RSS 0.9 and 0.91 frozen. 
>   o I would like to see the RSS efforts renamed, but keep some relation  to RSS. RSS 0.9 and 0.91 remain the same, and are frozen. 
>   o I think that the current state of affairs is acceptable. 
>   o I have some other opinion. 
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