The current RSS specification contains two minor issues I'd like to
resolve.
1. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#optionalChannelElements
The docs element refers to an outdated URL for the specification,
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss, instead of the current URL:
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
For as long as the board operates,
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification will be the permanent URL of
the current version of the spec. The domain name is the property of
the board, so it can move to a new host as needed in the future.
John Palfrey at Harvard told me that the URL
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss is going to become the permanent
URL of the original Harvard spec published in 2003 (not any of the
board's subsequent derivations). You can find a copy of the original
Harvard spec here:
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-2-0-1
2. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#comments
The spec encourages people with questions about RSS to post them on
the RSS2-Support mail list hosted by Sjoerd Visscher:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RSS2-Support
This list is no longer active, receiving more spam than RSS-related
posts. Our own RSS-Public mailing list is a better place to seek help.
Proposal
1. Revise the specification to reflect
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification as the permanent URL of the
document and RSS-Public as the mailing list where users can pose
questions about the format.
2. Give this version of the specification document the revision number
"RSS 2.0.8".
Is there a second?