Re: RSS 0.91 restated

Boy there would be some intense politics at that particular meeting. ;->

I'm still pondering how to move RSS forward. I definitely want ICE-like
stuff in RSS2, publish and subscribe is at the top of my list, but I am
going to fight tooth and nail for simplicity. I love optional elements. I
don't want to go down the namespaces and schema road, or try to make it a
dialect of RDF. I understand other people want to do this, and therefore I
guess we're going to get a fork. I have my own opinion about where the other
fork will lead, but I'll keep those to myself for the moment at least.

I see the biggest value in the large base of RSS 0.91 content, my goal is to
add simple features to enable new applications, giving each a lot of
thought, and foremost to retain the simplicity of 0.91. I guess I can't say
that enough. ;->

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laird A Popkin" <laird@io.com>
To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
Cc: <xml-dev@xml.org>; "Xml-Rpc@Egroups.Com" <xml-rpc@egroups.com>;
<xml-dist-app@w3.org>; <fork@xent.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: RSS 0.91 restated


> Once 0.91 is "pushed out the door" I'd suggest that we have a good
> opportunity to explore merging RSS and ICE. I'd suggest setting up a
> meeting between some of the ICE AG members and some of the folks involved
> in RSS to see how things could play together to our mutual benefit.
>
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Dave Winer wrote:
>
> > After an impromptu RSS BOF at Dale Dougherty's Web Publishing track at
WWW9,
> > I resolved to get RSS moving again.
> >
> > What is RSS? Perhaps you don't know. If so, check out the brief history
on
> > today's Scripting News, here:
> >
> > http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2000/06/07#rss
> >
> > Then read the spec:
> >
> > http://backend.userland.com/rss091
> >
> > It's not final, but I expect it will be by the end of the week. It's
just a
> > cleanup and restatement of 0.91, with the Netscapeisms removed, and
pointers
> > to the specs that are behind RSS. There's been a fair amount of interest
in
> > evolving RSS, but I felt that first we needed a strong foundation, a
spec
> > that was simple, understandable and complete. Hopefully that's what we
now
> > have.
> >
> > Dave Winer,
> > UserLand
> >
>

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