Re: enclosure status? (MRSS)

"Vadim Zaliva" <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:59:15 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.rss.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], Lucas Gonze <lgonze@p...> wrote:
> 
> Yahoo media RSS is the remaining candidate:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-media/files/
> 
> That would need to be finalized and ported to RDF.  However it would
come 
> with a sizable commitment from Y!, meaning a user base, and a committed 
> developer group in-house at Yahoo.
> 
> For my money, the biggest problem with MRSS is the relative lack of 
> openness.  It needs to belong to an outside group for me to be 
> comfortable.

Media RSS is too specific to media files. I think "enclosures" should
be more generic mechanism which allows to distribute any kind of data,
not just audio/video.

In fact, Media RSS could probably be used together with enclosures,
but not to replace them.

Sincerely,
Vadim









 
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