--- Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dare, you may regard this effort as redundant, but I
> see it as my role
> to help ensure that this WG ships something that is
> acceptably
> feature-ful in an acceptable time-frame. Obviously
> there are
> trade-offs. You are explicitly saying that you
> don't think the Atom
> format is ready. Please outline for us which set of
> features you would
> consider it necessary that Atom have to be worth
> doing. Are they
> represented by existing Paces? If not, do you plan
> to create some
> covering the missing pieces?
I'm saying that at present the Atom adds fragmentation
to the world of XML syndication for little or no
benefit. Starting a brand war with RSS may be good for
certain egos but it is bad for end users. As someone
who's been having to explain this mess to people at
Microsoft and figure out how to make this stuff more
mainstream, further fragmentation with little
differentiation between the choices is not a good
thing.
On the other hand, there isn't much I want from an XML
syndication format that can't be done with one of the
existing flavors of RSS (1.0 or 2.0) and extensions.
So I won't waste your time listing the features I'd
like to see in a syndication format.
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