RSS Profiling, Weblogs and Wikis

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

As many of you have no doubt seen, there's been lots of discussion on
Weblogs regarding profiling RSS. I think this is great; a profile gives us
the ability to converge the RSS community on a single spec, rather than
forking yet again.

However, I'm not convinced that Weblogs are the right place to do this; it
becomes difficult to track the state of the discussion, and it tends to
advantage the person running the weblog, because their post has primacy.

So, as an experiment I've created a Wiki for recording people's views on
an RSS profile. It is not intended to compete with the other discussions
that are happening on Weblogs, but to provide a neutral place that more
easily shows where people stand.

I'm frankly somewhat circumspect about posting this to Syndication,
because it very well may turn into another holy war. However, I'm even
more concerned that a profile that doesn't represent a good cross-section
of the community won't gain traction, and will fragment us still more.

So, please contribute where you can, but respect others as you do so.

  http://www.mnot.net/rss/wiki/ 

Have fun,

-- 
Mark Nottingham
http://www.mnot.net/