Curiouser and Curiouser! on dave-winer http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic dave-winer Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb RSS 2.0 has a new home Fri, 18 Jul 2003 19:13:37 +0100 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><A href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2003/07/18#rss20News">RSS 2.0 News</A>. </P> <P>There's lots of movement with RSS to <A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/announceRss2">announce</A> today. </P> <P><A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss"><IMG height=85 hspace=15 src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/09/08/flowers.gif" width=65 align=right vspace=5 border=0></A>1. On Tuesday, July 15, UserLand Software transferred its copyright in the RSS 2.0 spec to Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. This addresses one of the major concerns about RSS 2.0, that it was published by one of the competitors in the RSS application space. That no longer is true.</P> <P>2. <A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss">The spec</A> is licensed under terms that allow it to be customized, excerpted and republished, using the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike <A href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/">license</A>. So Berkman is basically acting as a distributor for the technology. We hope that this will inspire new profiles that extend RSS so it can meet the needs of diverse applications. </P> <P>3. Since UserLand specifically disclaimed ownership of the format that the specification describes, no transfer took place on the format itself.</P> <P>4. An independent <A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/advisoryBoard">advisory board</A> has been formed to promote the wider use of RSS, to maintain the spec according to the roadmap, and to remove one of the major objections, that only UserLand could answer questions about RSS. The three-member board votes, the majority rules. The three board members are Brent Simmons, Jon Udell and Dave Winer.</P> <P>5. The first <A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/advisoryBoard#whatsTheFirstTaskForTheBoard">task</A> for the advisory board is to carefully review the RSS 2.0 specification in its new context. Quite a few documents <A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssChangeNotes">moved</A>, there probably are broken links. Help from the community is requested.</P> <P>6. A place for <A href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/2003/07/18#a24">comments</A>, questions and suggestions.</P> <P>A caveat to people concerned about edits, this section will certainly be edited over the next few hours. </P> <P>[<A href="http://www.scripting.com/">Scripting News</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001519.html