RE: [syndication] Come on, let's move past this - Let's just choose a name!

["Rael Dornfest" <rael@oreilly.com>]

Dave,

> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]

> >>So what of the folks, and I'm not just talking about RDF'ers, who prefer
> RSS-*?  They just have to go along with it?

> The moral of the story is that we can ask people what they think, but if
> you've been listening, they've been looking to you and me to settle this.

But it's just not up to you and me to settle this, can't you understand
that?  You and I do _not_ own RSS, nor are we crowned prince or benevolent
dictator.

If so, we'd have settled it in the first conversation we had in April.
You invited me into this community process and I've come to trust and
believe in it.  I'm not being pedantic here, only democratic.

Let's run that poll, see what it says first thing Monday, and move on with
building an agreement that has some hope of passing by our respective
authorities; the rest is, as we've seen, very much in-line.

> You are getting a lot of patience from a lot of people, at least
> ten months
> worth, but come on Rael, the people are already voting and we've
> spent a lot
> of time haggling over what RSS is, when it was always perfectly clear what
> it actually is. How much more of this should we do? And why?

We should do one single unbiased centralized vote in front of a community of
our peers and see what they say.  I can't believe you have a problem with
this.

Rael