Re: [syndication] Dave Winer's RSS 2.0

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> >What do people think about Dave Winer's plan [1] to issue RSS 2.0
> I think he's rushing it, and everything is going to suffer.

I also think it's rushed and not as well thought out as is needed.  I find the
amout of research and past work done by the W3C and efforts like Dublin Core to
be much more useful in both the short and the long term.  To continue to ignore
those efforts seems like madness.

I'm greatly disappointed but not surprised to see this rancorous issue being
brought up again.   People, myself included, have tried to reach out to Dave but
have been rejected, in various different ways,

There's no need for this update to RSS, as it's already been done.  It's called
RSS-1.0.  It's not without it's complications or ambiguities.  But it already
supports doing everything proposed in 0.94 and has for over two years.  The
majority of what's proposed can either be done as a new module or in one already
available.

I for one will no longer support standards dictated by a vendor, regardless of
which vendor.  If it's not a true community format and protocol, the user
community should reject it.

Reality is that community efforts require cooperation.  That doesn't come easily
or quickly but the results can be a lot more fulfilling for users and developers
alike.  Certainly much more so than having something forced on you out of some
misguided dictatorial behavior from a vendor who profits from your going along
with it..

But hey, I'm only talking about listening to a number of other people, learning
from their years of experience and showing respect for that work by using it.
That's such a terrible and silly set of ideas isn't it?  It's much better to
just 'trust' that a vendor truly has your best intentions in mind, right?
Sure.... go climb in that trunk and see what happens to you.

Meanwhile, people truly interested in participating in evolution of standards
can do so by using RSS-1.0.

-Bill Kearney