Re: [syndication] Re: generic minimal set desired in a data syndication message?

[Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm ... why, again please, aren't  you  proposing these extensions as
> > a syndication module of RSS 1.0 on the dev-rss list?
> 
> Since Ian isn't here, I'll try and respond (of course Ian is free to correct
> me when he gets back).
> 
> Ian is tying to start from a clean slate, in regards to syndication. For
> him, RSS has too much legacy stuff as well as trying to do more than just
> syndication. Ian is looking for...well, as the subject line says: the
> generic minimal set desired in a data syndication message. Perhaps the
> result of this work will be an extension to RSS (as well as perhaps another
> spec) but in the mean time, it's important to begin work on finding exactly
> what people mean by syndication, and what they need to do it.
> 
> That's what Ian's trying to do right now, he's not trying to create a spec
> or a module or anything. I hope other people can help out.


Aaaron (a man who obviously can type 10 times faster than mere mortals) is
quite right ;-)  

Ian