I tried; the official response [1] was that the IESG wanted to see an stable and available spec -- by their standards -- for RSS before putting it in the standards tree. Just doing a registration doesn't cut it.
I worked on an RSS 2.0 I-D [2] for a while and then stopped when I got nervous about change control and copyright issues. Given that RSS 2.0 is now hosted at Harvard, it may be that the IESG will consider that a stable enough ref; if not, I'm not nearly as nervous now that it's under a CC license, and I think I could take a crack at the I-D again...
I'll do a bit of asking around...
1. https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi? command=view_id&dTag=7792&rfc_flag=0
2. http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-rss2-00.txt
On Mar 29, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
On Mar 29, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
IESG approval of an Internet-Draft with a media type registration would
register the type, yes. Whether we should try to register application/
rss+xml is a different question though.
D'oh, Randy wanted rss+xml, not atom+xml. Missed the point. -Tim
-- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
