Poll

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Proposal for a poll:

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RSS has a long and varied history; noone (except possibly Netscape,
who don't seem to care) can claim to 'own' the name. There are Two
current, somewhat separate RSS formats; RSS 0.9x, based on the later
work from Netscape, and RSS 1.0, based on the original, RSS 0.9.

This has caused problems in the RSS developer community, and is
perceived to cause problems in the RSS user community, especially as
evangelization efforts try to move forward. The proper course of
action has been the subject of much debate; this poll is intended to
express the will of the content syndication community, whether
developer, publisher and end user, in the resolution of this issue.

* I would like to see RSS split into two efforts with completely new,
  non-RSS names, while leaving RSS 0.9 and 0.91 frozen.

* I would like to see the RSS efforts renamed, but keep some relation
  to RSS. RSS 0.9 and 0.91 remain the same, and are frozen.

* I think that the current state of affairs is acceptable.

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Comments? Questions? Corrections? If there are other options not
listed, please bring them up now. I'd like to get this up in the next
couple of hours.

Some have mentioned that it could be resolved by Monday. Is that
enough time?




On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:37:08PM -0000, rael@oreilly.com wrote:
> --- In syndication@y..., "James Shaw" <yahoo@c...> wrote:
> > > For pity's sake, what's the harm in simply asking the question, 
> > folks?
> > 
> > Ask away.
> 
> I'd not simply created a poll for two reasons:
> 
> * Since this is Mark's list and he'd noted that he didn't think it 
> time yet for a poll, I'd respected his wanting to wait.
> 
> * I didn't want to bias the results, despite believing that the 
> suggestion I made last night for a poll question was indeed rather 
> balanced.
> 
> Mark, is it time yet?
> 
> Rael
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Mark Nottingham
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