Re: [syndication] Dave Winer's RSS 2.0

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

Couldn't have said it better myself.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Brickley" <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Dave Winer's RSS 2.0


>
> Seems a bit rushed. Good to see namespaces (sorta) in there, although
the
> lack of any detailed guidelines for their use makes me worry it'll
create
> chaos. The idea of stabilising on a basic core and using namespaces for
> extensibility is a good one, and one of the principles behind RSS 1.0.
I'm
> failing to see what Dave's "RSS 2.0" adds to that except for a bunch of
> stuff that could have been added via namespaces. Forgetting the name and
> versioning debate, I'd like to see a bit more discussion about how
exactly
> this flavour of RSS is supposed to work in practice. If it really adopts
> namespaces, then why not stick the more esoteric elements (eg. cloud) in
> an extension namespace?
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Chris Croome wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > What do people think about Dave Winer's plan [1] to issue RSS 2.0
> > [2] tomorrow?
> >
> > Is it just a matter of fixing the details as Ben Hammersley implies
> > [3] (I could add internationalisation to that list...) or is there a
> > far bigger _fundamental_ problem with the 'benevolent dictator'
> > appoach to the production of web standards?
> >
> > I've copied this to rss-dev for info but please follow this up on
> > the syndication list [4] since cross-posting is bad and the rss-dev
> > list is not as broad-based as the syndication one :-)
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > [1]
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/09/09#attnSpecWonks
> >
> > [2] http://backend.userland.com/rss
> >
> > [3] http://rss.benhammersley.com/archives/001320.html
> >
> > [4] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndication/
> >
> >
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