Re: [syndication] Autodiscovery standards and formal specification

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

> Well it has been specified more than once in competing specifications
:-)
>
> Disagreement on version details and the meaning of the acronym aside,
would
> the RSS community be interested in and willing to submit a specification
to
> a standardization body like the W3C or ECMA?
>
> This does mean giving up control for the proponents of current RSS
> specifications, though.

I've been working for this for about two years now, in different ways, and
you've beutifully highlighted both of the problems that stop it above.


> > Therefore, a media type for RSS cannot be registered.
>
> Unless one of the x- media types was chosen (which given the relative
> popularity of application/xml+rss would be a bad idea).

Yep. x- is also highly discouraged; vnd. would be the go these days.
Actually, Dave should do that - register a vnd.userland media type for RSS
2.0 (NOT the other formats). Hmm.

Cheers,