Re: The role of the advisory board

Briefly -- you're trying to be a standards body, a gatekeeper, and that's wrong. Get to work and help out. Support and promote RSS. You're no more authoritative than anyone else. And open up the rss-board list so anyone can post to it. Then you might find you're all in the loop. Dave



--- In [email protected], "rcade" <cadenhead@...> wrote:
>
> If you're going to go back to the original documents regarding the purpose of the RSS Advisory Board, here's another from 2004:
> 
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/advisoryBoard.html
> 
> "We answer questions, write tech notes, advocate for RSS, *make minor changes to the spec* per the roadmap ..."
> 
> Emphasis mine. But this is ancient history that's pointless to rehash. The board has revised the spec 11 times:
> 
> http://www.rssboard.org/rss-history
> 
> The first six of these revisions occurred while you were a member of the board.
> 
> The role of the board today is the same as it was when you were a member. The only differences are that we operate in public and have more members, so we're more representative of the RSS community as a whole.
> 
> Your effort to revise RSS by creating a new version of RSSCloud should be proposed to the board.
>




------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:[email protected] 
    mailto:[email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/