Autodiscovery standards and formal specification

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

RSS has not been formally specified.
Therefore, a media type for RSS cannot be registered.
Therefore, autodiscovery cannot be formally specified (not that it would
need to be, if the media type were registered; it's already spelled out in
the HTML spec).

[insert rant on how we need to standardize RSS here]



----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Johannes Rusch" <KlausRusch@atmedia.net>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Re: Autodiscovery (was: Fawcette's feed)


> Bill Kearney wrote:
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> > But yeah, the specs 'allow' all sorts of things.  Let's try to avoid
the trap of
> > being so ambiguous it's useless situation found in many specs these
days.
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> Which actually raises a good point: Has autodiscovery been formally
specified? (Not
> with an example but a specification saying what is required, what is
optional etc.)
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> Klaus Johannes Rusch
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> http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/
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