On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 19:50, Chris Croome wrote:
> Hi
>
> What do people think about Dave Winer's plan [1] to issue RSS 2.0
> [2] tomorrow?

Nothing :-)

> Is it just a matter of fixing the details as Ben Hammersley implies
> [3] (I could add internationalisation to that list...) or is there a
> far bigger _fundamental_ problem with the 'benevolent dictator'
> appoach to the production of web standards?

The need of open processes is a good enough reason IMO to pursue our
work in this (RSS 1.0) working group. And I think that it would be worth
even if we came out (and I don't think that it could be the case) to the
same spec word for word :-)

> I've copied this to rss-dev for info but please follow this up on
> the syndication list [4] since cross-posting is bad and the rss-dev
> list is not as broad-based as the syndication one :-)

I intend to focus on technical aspects and don't want to subscribe back
to the syndication list (I don't have the badwidth to do so).

Eric
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