- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:20:26 +0100
- To: rss-dev@yahoogroups.com
- Cc: em@w3.org, www-archive@w3.org, libby.miller@bristol.ac.uk
Hi Dan, I think it's a good idea and an honnor for RSS 1.0 to be hosted on the W3C Web site but I am wondering under which licence it will be published. Will it it covered (or absorbed) by a general licence applying to documents published on the W3C web site or can it keep its current licence unaltered? Thanks Eric Dan Brickley wrote: > RSS 1.0 WG, > > The Yahoogroups web service, to which the PURL for the RSS 1.0 namespace > URI, http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ currently redirects, now requires cookies. > This makes it tricky for the XHTML/RDDL/RDFSchema document at that URI to > be dereferenced by automated tools. > > I copy below a quick sanity-check exchange w/ Rael. I have mirrored our > namespace document at w3.org so that it is accessible without cookies. I > propose that we reconfigure the PURL server to point to this URI instead > of to yahoogroups, at least for the main RSS 1.0 URI. I'll propose a poll > to that effect once we've had time to discuss any possible complications > or alternatives. If the poll is positive, we can take it to a WG vote. > > http://www.w3.org/2002/01/rss/rss1_namespace > > I'll keep this sync'd with any changes to the master copy which currently > resides on www.yahoogroups.com. I'm happy to host such RSS-related docs at > W3C (loosly under the RDF Interest Group banner, ie. this isn't about > going standards-track at W3C). However at W3C we don't yet have the kind > of easy file-sharing tools offered by Yahoo, and I'm wary of creating a > bottleneck for the kind of collaboration we've achieved through the use > of Yahoo's (advertisement-strewn) Web services. We do however take URI > longevity pretty seriously, so I'm happy to offer the WG > http://www.w3.org/2002/01/rss/rss1_namespace as a URI that > http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ might redirect to, or that tool developers might > make use of. > > We could probably copy a bunch of the other docs from the WG filespace on > yahoogroups to W3C (eg. the modules), and it may be that the workings of > the PURL server might require this for PURLs that begin with the same URI; > I'd need to check. Perhaps someone more familiar with the PURL service > could comment? (EricM?) > > So I propose a poll (and then vote), with draft text as follows: > > (hmm, I've not done one of these before. sorry if this sounds po-faced!) > > [[ > The RSS 1.0 WG accepts the offer to host some or all of the RSS 1.0 PURL > redirections on the W3C's Web site. This constitutes an informal collaboration > between the RSS 1.0 WG and the W3C RDF / Semantic Web Interest Group; the > continued management of the RSS 1.0 specification and associated > extensions remains with the RSS 1.0 Working Group. The motivation for this > collaboration is to offer cookie and advert-free access to key RSS 1.0 > documents for the Web community and their automated tools and services. > The WG also notes that the proposed PURL change is not final, and that > the RSS 1.0 PURLs can be redirected elsewhere in the future. > > Proposed redirection changes: > > PURL: http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ > Current: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/files/namespace.html > Proposed: http://www.w3.org/2002/01/rss/rss1_namespace > > Other PURL redirections: to be discussed/proposed?? (in this poll/vote?? > or subsequently?? I suggest "at the discretion of the WG chair", ie. leave > this decision to the chair rather than vote on each/every doc URI). > > ]] > (end of draft poll/vote text) > > I'm hoping this should be reasonably uncontroversial, and that we can get > our PURL working again asap. If I've misjudged and this looks like a > clumsy yet sinister W3C takover attempt, or if others rush forward > offering to host the doc(s), maybe it'll take longer. > > Comments to the list please; I'll see what folks think and refine and > initiate a poll over the next few days. I'll ping the RDF Interest Group > list too once RSS-DEV has had a digest the proposal. > > cheers, > > Dan > > > > > -- Rendez-vous a Paris pour les Electronic Business Days 2002. http://www.edifrance.org/ebd/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com http://xsltunit.org http://4xt.org http://examplotron.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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