Re: Proposal: Publish the RSS Best-Practices Profile

The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license is not the latest. 
Should the 3.0 license be used instead?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

-Franklin

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From: "rcade" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, 02 October, 2007 12:08
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [rss-public] Proposal: Publish the RSS Best-Practices Profile

>
>
> The following RSS Advisory Board proposal has been made by Rogers
> Cadenhead and seconded by Randy Charles Morin.
>
> Under the advisory board charter, the board has seven days to discuss
> the proposal followed by seven days to vote on it. Interested parties
> can comment on the proposal on this mailing list.
>
> Proposal
>
> For the last 18 months, the RSS Advisory Board has been drafting a set
> of best-practice recommendations for RSS [1]. Working with the
> developers of browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla
> Firefox, aggregators such as Bloglines and Google Reader, and blogging
> tools including Movable Type, we've looked for areas where questions
> about the RSS format have led to differences in how software has been
> implemented to produce and consume RSS feeds.
>
> The result of our work is the RSS Profile:
>
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile
>
> The lead authors are James Holderness, Morin, Geoffrey Sneddon and
> myself. The profile isn't a set of rules; it's a set of suggestions
> drafted by programmers and web publishers who've been working with RSS
> since the format's first release in 1999. Our goal is for the profile
> to be the second document programmers consult when they're learning
> how to implement RSS.
>
> The profile tackles some long-standing issues in RSS implementation,
> including the proper number of enclosures per item, the meaning of the
> TTL element and the use of HTML markup in character data.
>
> In addition to recommendations for the RSS elements documented in the
> specification, the profile includes advice for four common namespace
> elements: atom:link, content:encoded, dc:creator and slash:comments.
>
> We propose that the board endorse and publish the RSS Profile, making
> it available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
> license [2] so that others can build upon and extend it with their own
> recommendations.
>
> Additionally, we propose that the following sentence be added to the
> About this document section [3] of the specification, as a new fifth
> paragraph:
>
> "The RSS Profile [4] contains a set of recommendations for how to
> create RSS documents that work best in the wide and diverse audience
> of client software that supports the format."
>
> 1: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification
> 2: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#license
> 3: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#aboutThisDocument
> 4: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile
>
> 


 
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