FWIW, with the permission of the WG chairs and the previous editor, I just resubmitted the atom discovery draft as an individual submission. Regardless of how things might have unfolded previously, the spec is open for discussion; however, I only intend to make changes that have a clear consensus. I don't have a problem trying to figure out how rss can be incorporated so I invite anyone who is interested to please participate in the discussion on the atom-syntax list.
- James James Holderness wrote: > > > Sam Ruby wrote: >> That particular specification has been surprisingly uncontroversial. > > You would think, but have you looked at that thread I mentioned from > earlier > this year [1]? Or the one from May of last year [2]? The current discussion > is starting out in much the same way. They have a very well written draft > spec, that has been widely implemented, and yet they still can't agree to > just publish the damn thing. I guess it's one of those bikeshed issues. > >> The only issue I can imagine that could come up is that >> application/rss+xml is currently unregistered, and potentially >> unregisterable. > > I didn't look very hard, but I couldn't find any significant objections. > The > best I could come up with was this statement from Phil Ringnalda: "It's > only > Atom-only in that it doesn't attempt to dictate things outside the WG's > charter" [3]. I don't think that rules out the Atom WG and the RSS Board > cooperating in some way. > > However, I don't want to wait for the Atom WG to finish arguing about it > before we do anything. I think we should go ahead with what we've got for > now. 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