On 9 Nov 2004, at 17:24, Danny Ayers wrote:
Henry, please correct me if I'm wrong on your proposal A :
1. Atom core would remain essentially as-is*
That would be the name of the game. What are the minimum modifications one would need
to make to Atom core for this to work? If one could do it without making any modifications at all that would be the best.
The example I gave this morning is something I worked on in the last 24h. So I am sure one can do a lot better.
2. Anyone wishing to use an RSS 2.0-style extension mechanism, can do (i.e. anything can go anywhere, leave it to vendors to figure individual interpretations)
Yes. Why not. Then we will have a multiply extensible extensibility mechanism, and we will have brought the two RSS camps together in a loving embrace. :-)
3. Anyone wishing to use RDF-based extensions can do, by adding the attributes needed to make the syntax interpretable as RDF/XML, then re-using standard vocabularies in the same manner as RSS 1.0
Yes.
* there may be minor readjustments needed to align the formats, but I can't see any yet (changing the case of Feed etc isn't essential - RSS 1.0 has lower-case classnames)
This seems a low-friction route through the extensibility issue. I could live with it (to the extent that I'd be a lot more comfortable about Declaring Victory).
These, the questions brought up by Antone Roundy, and others we will discover will need to be addressed. With some good minds on the issues, this hopefully could be done relatively quickly, so that we can get the thing out of the door.
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Cheers, Danny.
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