AFAIK, Jeremy Zawodny from Yahoo! is currently responsible for the
spec. My own previous requests to him have either gone unanswered or
un-acted upon.

Based on Y!'s lack of action on this issue, I currently believe that
Y! will likely never re-engage in this work, and therefore the RSS
community should officially fork version 1.1.2 of the spec and
continue development without Y! support.

There are some great minds working at Y! (I recently spent 3 months
working with the Y! Messenger web team), but this should definitely be
considered an embarrassment to the people who are involved with Media
RSS. Even the official feeds from Y! Search use the wrong namespace.

In the case of SimplePie, as of the most recent release, we simply
normalized the usage of the correct and incorrect namespaces
internally so that we can parse Media RSS elements either way.


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Ryan Parman
Creator and Co-Developer
SimplePie

http://simplepie.org



On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Sean Gilligan wrote:

> Is anyone from Yahoo still on this list?
>
> The mediarss spec at http://search.yahoo.com/mrss still says that
> there
> should not be a trailing slash on the namespace URI.
>
> The last official message
> (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/message/1008) we got
> from
> a Yahoo person (David Hall) on the subject said the trailing slash
> should be there. http://feedvalidator.org/ also says it should be
> there.
>
> Looking at the spec with WayBack machine
> (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://search.yahoo.com/mrss) shows that
> the presence or absence of the trailing slash has changed at least
> three
> times, none of which are documented in the revision history.
>
> Can someone from Yahoo please make sure the following things happen:
>
> 1) Correct the document to have the trailing slash once again
> 2) Add an explicit sentence that says the trailing slash should be
> there
> despite earlier versions of the spec
> 3) Add a comment to the document revision history indicating the
> change
> (perhaps the version should bump to 1.1.2, but it could stay 1.1.1 and
> the correction would note that 1.1.1 always required a trailing slash,
> there was just a typo in the spec)
>
> For extra credit:
> 4) Have http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/ not return a 404 and a search
> form
> 5) Have http://search.yahoo.com/mrss redirect to
> http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/
>
> I think this would help eliminate a good deal of confusion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean Gilligan
>
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