RE: Yahoo and "Media RSS"

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bob Wyman <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:02:09 -0500
> Subject: Yahoo and "Media RSS"
> To: Atom WG <[email protected]>
> 
> Yahoo has recently announced "Media RSS" which is "An RSS 
> module that supplements the <enclosure> element capabilities 
> of RSS 2.0 to allow for more robust media syndication". It 
> would seem to make sense for us to consider how something 
> similar, would be provided within an Atom based system.
> 
> See: "Media RSS" Specification Version .9 (DRAFT) 
> http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/
> 
> Frequently Asked Questions about Media RSS 
> http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/mrss.html
> 

Perhaps more relevant to discuss is the all of a sudden like 
presence of Yahoo that presumes to define 'supplemental'
syndication whats and wherefors. Who is next? MSN? Google?

I don't mean to interject with controversy but I would 
appareciate comments from those who have deeper insight into 
what the emergence of 'supplemental' activities implies.

<%= Clinton Gallagher



 
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