RE: [syndication] Re: I'm confused

["Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>]

I agree with Steven and I am aghast at what Aaron proposes.
As far as I remember this goes against the wishes of RSS-DEV
and Syndication -- the plan was to pick a new name that
would clearly indicate that RSS and "The Other Thing" are
different.

You can't issue a standard that preempts something Netscape
has done and then offer to retract it if they complain. The
real world just does not work this way. Unless you have clear
title to RSS then just pick another name. How hard is it?

Jeff;

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Swartz [mailto:aswartz@swartzfam.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 7:15 PM
To: syndication@egroups.com
Subject: [syndication] Re: I'm confused


Steven Roussey <sroussey@network54.com> wrote:

> I'm confused. When did Netscape release RSS into the public domain and say
> they are hands off?

They didn't, but I believe this was implied by the fact that Netscape has
stopped working on RSS and (nearly?) all of the the people who used to work
on the project have since left the company.

> I personally connect RSS and Netscape together, and
> figure end-users do as well. What if Netscape decided on something
> different? So sadly, we can not use any of the revisions proposed here.

I don't see how this is an issue. So what if Netscape decides on something
different? (which I think is unlikely) How does that negate any of the work
being done on RSS? Why does it prevent you from supporting it? The format
stands independent of anything Netscape says. If they don't like us calling
it RSS, then we can change the name, but that doesn't change the format at
all.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something,

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