PRISM and RSS

["David Smiley" <dsmiley@mitre.org>]

Greetings from a lurker of the rss-dev and syndication discussion lists.  I
have been following the discussions of the RSS community lately (although I
admit I have had to skim through the high volume of mail recently--it's
toooo much).  I want to put in my 2 cents.

I think that RSS 0.92 and its lineage should go on as the name "RSS".  After
all, most RSS documents are 0.92 based.  As far as what is currently known
as RSS 1.0, I think it should cease to exist because there is already
something called PRISM[1] that does what RSS 1.0 does in a way very close to
how RSS1.0 does it.  It is more RDF based than even RSS 1.0 is and it uses
Dublin Core heavily too.  If you want to extend it somehow, then we could
discuss various modules that could be added onto PRISM in the same way that
is done with extending RSS 1.0--XML namespaces.  We could create a new
Yahoo! group to discuss ways to use and extend PRISM.

So what do you all think?  I dare somone (I mean this civily) to present a
compelling argument why RSS 1.0 AND PRISM need to exist, or why RSS1.0 is
"better".

[1] http://www.prismstandard.org
PRISM 1.0 spec (259 KB): http://www.prismstandard.org/techdev/prismspec1.asp

-- David Smiley
    MITRE

P.S. A previous post where I suggested that PRISM was a superset of RSS1.0
was incorrect.