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Ryan Parman
<http://ryanparman.com>




On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:41 PM, "scamden" <sterling@...>
wrote:

> I vote in favor of all of these proposed edits.
>
> --- In rss-board@yahoogroups.com, "rcade" <cadenhead@...> wrote:
>>
>> Today begins the seven-day vote on the six proposed admin edits to
>> the RSS spec.
>>
>> I've restated the proposal in full here:
>>
>> I'd like the board to consider some administrative changes that
>> have been long-needed on the RSS 2.0 specification. These edits
>> have no implications to the elements and attributes that make up
>> the RSS format.
>>
>> I'd like the board to adopt all of the following six edits to the
>> spec:
>>
>> 1. The spec, unlike the RSS Profile, does not contain a link to the
>> Feed Validator. I'd like to add this sentence to the About a
>> Document [1] section: "RSS documents can be tested for validity in
>> the RSS Validator [2]."
>>
>> 2. The About the Document section contains two incorrect
>> statements: "This document represents the status of RSS as of the
>> Fall of 2002, version 2.0.1. It incorporates all changes and
>> additions, starting with the basic spec for RSS 0.91 (June 2000)
>> and includes new features introduced in RSS 0.92 (December 2000)
>> and RSS 0.94 (August 2002)."
>>
>> The reference to RSS 0.94 is incorrect -- that version was
>> withdrawn right after publication and renumbered as RSS 2.0. Also,
>> the Fall 2002 date and 2.0.1 version number are seven years out of
>> date. The current document version number and publication date are
>> identified in the Archivist's Note atop the specification.
>>
>> I'd like to change these two paragraphs to the single sentence
>> "This document represents the current status of RSS, incorporating
>> all changes and additions starting with the basic spec for RSS 0.91
>> (June 2000) and follows RSS 0.92 (December 2000), RSS 2.0 (August
>> 2002), and RSS 2.0.1 (July 2003)." Each of the old specs on
>> rssboard.org would be linked in the paragraph.
>>
>> 3. In the Enclosure section [3], the use case for the element is
>> not hosted at rssboard.org and is intermittently unavailable or
>> slow due to server crashes. I'd like to change the link to a
>> locally hosted copy of the use case document at [4]. We're already
>> doing this for other documentation required by the specification in
>> the cloud [5] and item [6] sections.
>>
>> 4. The Comments section [7] also links to an external document
>> required by the spec. I'd like to change the link to a locally
>> hosted copy of the document at [8].
>>
>> 5. The ttl section [9] contains a link to Gnutella that has been
>> broken for years. I'd like to remove this link.
>>
>> 6. The definitions for skipHours and skipDays in the supporting
>> document [10] are extremely short. I'd like to bring them into the
>> specification's optional channel elements section [11] by replacing
>> "More info here" with the definitions.
>>
>> skipHours becomes "A hint for aggregators telling them which hours
>> they can skip. This element contains up to 24 <hour> sub-elements
>> whose value is a number between 0 and 23, representing a time in
>> GMT, when aggregators, if they support the feature, may not read
>> the channel on hours listed in the skipHours element. The hour
>> beginning at midnight is hour zero."
>>
>> skipDays becomes "A hint for aggregators telling them which days
>> they can skip. This element contains up to seven <day> sub-elements
>> whose value is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
>> Saturday or Sunday. Aggregators may not read the channel during
>> days listed in the skipDays element."
>>
>> The only change I made in copying the definitions over is changing
>> "An XML element" to "This element". No elements in the spec are
>> defined by calling them "XML elements."
>>
>> 1: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#aboutThisDocument
>> 2: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-validator
>> 3:
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltenclosuregtSubelementOfLtitemgt
>> 4: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-enclosures-use-case
>> 5: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltcloudgtSubelementOfLtchannelgt
>> 6: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#hrelementsOfLtitemgt
>> 7: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#hrelementsOfLtitemgt
>> 8: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-weblog-comments-use-case
>> 9: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#ltttlgtSubelementOfLtchannelgt
>> 10: http://www.rssboard.org/skip-hours-days
>> 11: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#optionalChannelElements
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