I vote No ... not because of any political issues, just because namespaced attributes have always rubbed me the wrong way. If it's any consolation, I don't like aspect-oriented programming either. If you feel that the spec is ambiguous, then I'd vote to disallow them. Personally, though, I don't find the spec ambiguous.

rcade wrote:

The seven-day voting period now begins on the proposal to add four
words to the RSS 2.0 specification to clarify whether extension
attributes are allowed to core RSS elements:

http://www.rssboard.org/news/165

There has been heavy discussion on RSS-Public about this issue, so I
encourage members to read it. Here's the place the discussions began:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/1311

You can vote Yes, No or Abstain.

-- Eric Lunt
CTO, FeedBurner
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