I just heard from Ross Mayfield, who's resigning the RSS Advisory Board because of other obligations. We still get to keep our SocialText wiki. This means...
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rcade
Feb 2, 2007 5:18 pm
The RSS Advisory Board's charter stipulates that the chair serves a two-year term that begins Feb. 1 of odd-numbered years. I'm interested in continuing as...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Feb 2, 2007 6:42 pm
You got my vote! I think in the next year we have to focus on the profile in order to get it done without another year of delays. I think everybody would like...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
May 22, 2007 3:20 pm
I'd like to propose a small clarification to the spec to remove debate in the community as to whether extension attributes are allowed in the RSS spec. In the...
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rcade
May 23, 2007 2:19 am
I second this proposal. I was involved in RSS when namespaces were added to version 2.0 in 2002, though not as a board member (it didn't exist yet). Dave Winer...
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rcade
May 23, 2007 2:22 am
Now that the proposal has been seconded, we will discuss the issue for seven days and then have seven days in which to vote. All votes and voting deliberations...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
May 23, 2007 2:30 am
Just a small clarification. The attribute xmlns:blogChannel is not an extension of RSS. The xmlns namespace is part of basic XML and RSS is a dialect of XML,...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
May 27, 2007 2:43 pm
... When this issue was first brought up, I was fairly sure that it was just matter of poor wording, and the intention of the spec was almost certainly to...
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rcade
May 27, 2007 3:14 pm
... The reason it has to be addressed in the spec is because one namespace has no bearing on another. We can't use potential interop problems as the reason to...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
May 28, 2007 2:16 pm
James, Politics aside, do you have a specific concern with the spec mod? Is there a use case (RSS fragment) that describes your concern? Thanks, Randy Charles...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
May 28, 2007 5:54 pm
... Nope. Technically I think the proposal makes sense. My concerns are entirely political - essentially I don't want to get involved in a spec fight, which is...
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rcade
May 29, 2007 3:17 pm
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...
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rcade
May 29, 2007 3:37 pm
I'm voting Yes on this proposal. I think it's the proper interpretation of what the spec means regarding namespace support, and the board's the proper place to...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
May 29, 2007 3:47 pm
I'm voting yes also. There's been little debate about whether this change is actually good or bad, since most every agrees the change would help clarify...
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mdbookspan
May 29, 2007 5:10 pm
... I also vote Yes....
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Paul Querna
pquerna
May 29, 2007 6:33 pm
... I vote yes. As someone trying to ignore all the political bullshit surrounding the topic, I believe the proposed change makes sense. -Paul...
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Eric Lunt
elunt
May 29, 2007 7:03 pm
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...
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James Holderness
james_holder...
May 29, 2007 11:39 pm
... Abstain....
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Jenny Levine
jennamomster
May 30, 2007 2:13 am
Abstain Jenny ... From: rcade To: rss-board@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:17 AM Subject: [rss-board] Vote: Spec Clarification The seven-day...
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Meg Hourihan
mhourihan
May 30, 2007 12:36 pm
... Abstain. -meg...
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Jason Shellen
jshellen
May 30, 2007 5:40 pm
Abstain. ... -- Cheers, Jason Shellen...
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Christopher Finke
christopherf...
May 30, 2007 6:04 pm
I vote Yes as well. -- Christopher Finke Sr. Software Engineer, Netscape http://www.efinke.com/...
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rcade
Jun 5, 2007 12:05 am
On behalf of the board, I bought the domain rssboard.com from its current owner for $250 on Sedo.Com, a domain brokerage service: ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Jun 5, 2007 12:47 am
We should go to a membership model. Basically, any company or individual can become a sponsoring member of the board for $100+/yr. Just to clarify, sponsoring...
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Greg Smith
ecomputerd
Jun 5, 2007 1:10 am
Let me know how much you need. $50 is not unreasonable for me to contribute. Greg ... ...
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Randy Morin
randymorin
Jun 5, 2007 4:43 am
... or ... willing. ... I'm...
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rcade
Jun 6, 2007 3:49 pm
The proposal to revise the RSS specification has passed 5-1 with RSS Advisory Board members Matthew Bookspan, Rogers Cadenhead, Christopher Finke, Randy...
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Jake Savin
jsavin
Jun 11, 2007 10:46 pm
Seconded. ... From: Randy Morin To: rss-board@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:18 AM Subject: [rss-board] Spec Clarification I'd like to propose a...
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Jake Savin
jsavin
Jun 11, 2007 11:04 pm
Appologies -- this had been sitting in an Outbox on an email client I hadn't launched in a while. Please ignore. Thanks, -Jake ... debate ... in the ... change...
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rcade
Jun 18, 2007 7:27 pm
The RSS Best-Practices Profile, a set of recommendations for publishers of RSS feeds and developers of software to read the feeds, has reached a significant...
