There is a furor in the RSS community as Dave Winer announces that the syndication language RSS 2.0 - introduced by Winer in mid-August - is now a specification. RSS 2.0 began life as an irony, embracing the use of namespaces after Winer's long campaign (in support of RSS 0.0x and against RSS 1.0) against them. But more to the point, from my point of view, is that RSS 2.0 seems to be his attempt to own the standard for himself. Certainly that seems to be the reaction of the RSS developer community, as evidenced in this weblog. One commentator writes, "But the problem I have here is this: I simply do not trust Dave Winer. For all sorts of reasons I regard him as a really bad choice of person to steward an important specification." Ouch. The RSS specification is here, and no, I won't be converting my RSS feeds to 2.0 anytime soon.
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