On 9 Nov 2004, at 16:17, James Robertson wrote:
At 10:03 AM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
If the Atom working group wants to move along quickly the extensibility problem has to be solved. A good extensibility model for atom means that a lot of issues need not be resolved immediately. Those issues that don't get a wide consensus don't need to be dealt with now. Only the best understood elements need go into the spec. Further additions can be left to the extension mechanism, and be integrated in later revisions when they are better understood. A good extension mechanism will mean a spec out of the door much sooner than otherwise.
And the best extension mechanism is RDF.
Without commenting on the merits of RDF, I think that RSS 2.0 demonstrates the real-world fact that using namespaced modules works.
There are many on this list that don't believe this. I think a very large part of the W3C does not believe this, and the guy who invented the Web, Tim Berner's Lee, who thought about it in the early 80ies, when most people had trouble understanding what computers were, let alone the net, does not believe this.
So please people don't respond to this.
I want to know who thinks this is a good idea first.
Thanks,
Henry Story
http://bblfish.net/blog/
