Re: New poll for syndication

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> (d) "I have some other opinion":
> We should start working together again, under the broad and well know
> banner of "RSS".  DTDs, namespaces, RDF,
> XHTML, XSLT and all that are dull geeky things that we can largely hide
> from users of (the various flavours of) RSS. Just as content producers
> currently manage to survive in a world where there are numerous flavours
> of HTML, of image formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, ...), etc., they'll get by in
> a world with various off-the-shelf RSS flavours too. But they'l find it
> a lot easier if we don't give them contrary names and abandon any
> attempts to collaborate on a shared story.

Dan, I completely agree with this vision, but I see it as part of option (a)
"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." Clearing up what RSS is
and where it's going, is IMO the first step to bringing the RSS community
back together. 

So step one is to figure out collectively what we are and where we're going.
Step two is to start getting there, and hopefully do it together.

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[ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]