Re: [syndication] Re: [rss] [2000-05-11] RSSx "Straw-Man" (repost)

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

There were some discussions of desireable features on this list early on;
see the archives. Not saying they're complete, but a starting point.

Dave, I'm very busy with other things now, and haven't had time to give your
doc proper consideration, but wanted to give a few off-the-cuff thoughts
that you can do with as you will;

* Is this truely a cleanup of RSS 0.91, with *no* changes? If there are any
  syntactic changes, it needs to be another version. Rather than making it a
  "userland specification" as you did with XML-RPC, why not format it as an
  I-D (this one would be a BCP) or a W3C note, and submit when ready?

* A DTD would be very nice; it's easier for (some) people to digest. I'll be
  happy to do this if noone else is willing.

* For the language codes, you should probably reference the appropriate
  document (RFC1766, ISO639), rather than listing them here.

I think it's a good idea to establish best current practice for RSS quickly,
and move on to work on the next version that everyone wants so badly.



On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:52:43PM +0100, iand@internetalchemy.org wrote:
> Tuesday, June 06, 2000, 7:22:13 PM, Rael wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry we missed eachother in Amsterdam.  I look forward, therefore, to
> > taking a gander at what you'd like to put into the next generation of RSS.
> > I'm glad to see some forward momentum building and look forward to an RSS
> > that meets at the very least most of our needs most of the time.
> 
> Defining new specifications is very hard to do because no one has
> publicly stated what they'd like RSS to be capable of. Do people want
> to us it to syndicate other forms of content aside from news
> headlines? Do people want to use it to describe the structure of
> their sites along the lines of their original intent of the format?
> 
> Dave, Rael, what problems do you need RSS to solve?
> 
> Ian
> 
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