RSS Profile Wiki
Mark Nottingham,
May 11, 2003
The development of RSS has been a chaotic process. The specification has split, or "forked," several times. The community as a whole is divided over whther RDF should form the basis. It is in this environment that Mark Nottingham has decided to stimulate discussion by setting up this RSS Profile Wiki in an effort to see whether the community can settle on a single profile. This follows some rather ominous comments from Dave Winer to the effect that if the RSS community stays divided, Microsoft will ruin it for everyone: "[They're] going to define a namespace with poorly documented stuff the rest of us don't understand. Some of us will support Microsoft's extensions, others won't.... And they'll add and subtract features unpredictably until users get the idea that it's safer just to stay with MS, and they'll own yet another market."
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