As you may know, I've been interested for some time in standardizing
RSS, as well as registering a media type for it (application/rss+xml).

For a while, I pursued the RSS1.0 path, mostly because I was
interested in the Semantic Web for other projects as well.

Over time, however, I've become convinced that RDF isn't right for
RSS, at least not in the forseeable future. Given that RSS 2.0 is the
latest-and-greatest of the *other* branch of RSS, it seems appropriate
to try something in that direction.

So, I've generated an Internet-Draft that documents the RSS 2.0 format
as described by Dave, in a more formal fashion (so it's suitable for
submission to the IETF).

The intent here is to document the format so that it can be referenced
by the media type registration (this was the problem when we tried
before; they wouldn't recognize a URL as a reference) as well as other
specs.

It is NOT the intent to change or "improve" the format in ANY way;
documents that are conformant with Dave's documentation should be
conformant with this document, and vice versa. It's ONLY to provide a
reference that's stable in the standards world's eyes. The intent
isn't to make this developer-friendly; Dave has already done an
excellent job there.

So, I'd like to enlist this community's help in assuring that it is
indeed functionally equivalent to Dave's spec. Once that happens, it
can be submitted to be published as an Informational RFC, and we get a
media type registration (which means that browsers and servers are
more likely to accommodate the format over time).

See:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nottingham-rss2-00.txt

Cheers,