I have been remaining silent for a while, partly because of a lack of
bandwidth and also because I have a feeling that most of what is being
discussed has already been discussed before RSS 1.0 went "official" and
is about things which IMO cannot been fixed in RSS 1.0 which should
remain stable.

Now, I can see two reasons why there is such a need to rediscuss stuff
on which decisions have already been taken:

1) the decisions have not been documented enough
2) the decisions were not the best choices.

I think that in our case it's probably 50%/50% between these two and
that we need to move along (toward RSS 1.1 ?) and fix these stuff
definitely.

The big mistake we've done IMO, has been to focus on the syntax and I
think we should reconsider the choice that the RSS documents should be
100% RDF compliant and consider the possibility to make them simpler XML
and just "RDF friendly" with a documented way to generate triples out of
them.

To do so, we would need to define a proper model, eventually as a RDF
schema, with a simple XML representation and document the mapping
between the model and the syntax.

Does that make sense?

Eric
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