Re: [syndication] Digest Number 147

[Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>]

"Paulo Gaspar" <Paulo.Gaspar@krankikom.de> writes:

> I personaly know a lot of people that are familiar with RSS and do
> not have a clue on the Dublin Core.

> I am sorry, but it looks like you have a wrong perception on what is
> the background of the rest of the world. I only hope this note helps
> fixing that.

The main point: as long as anybody in the group knows about it and
brings it up, then everyone knows about it.

In this particular case, the reason why this isn't an issue with users
is because the proposal is not to make a normative reference to Dublin
Core ("go read Dublin Core if you want to understand this") but to
take the definitions of some elements from Dublin Core and use them
verbatim ("footnote: these have the same definitions as in Dublin
Core, in case you find that useful").

Does this make a difference?

  -- Ken