Re: [syndication] Feed List Format

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney@syndic8.com>]

> Umm...I still haven't heard a decent answer as to why OCS shouldn't be
> used. Its got two years of legs under it and already does, from what I
> can see, exactly what is being proposed with this new format. At least,
> no one has corrected me in this view yet.

As someone that likes OCS and recognizes the value of it's being based on RDF
even I'm not going to try to force the issue.  Yes, OCS does this now and it's
really quite easy to parse.  Trouble is some of the participants on this thread
have shown an unbelievable resistance, bordering on masochism, to using anything
that smart.  It ends up being a non-starter, discussion-wise.

That said, on Syndic8 we've long used OCS and fully intend to keep doing so.  I
expect to make the OCS variants of the data we produce to be much more
informative than the others.  That's already the case now.  But untill a
groundswell builds behind the idea of machine processable indexes it's hard to
get them to understand why using OCS is worth it.

-Bill Kearney