Re: RDF redux

[Nadeem Bitar <nadim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 20:06 +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:

> Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> 
> > I am mainly concerned with expediency at this point because I believe
> > the adoption rate would be affected by when the spec is finalized.
> > Jeremy Zadowny  said it best: "Can we make it happen FAST? There are
> > some 800 pound companies looking at this stuff pretty hard right now."
> 
> So?
> 
BBC and Yahoo only recently added RSS feeds to their pages. Many
applications are also adding RSS feeds for notification.  Now tell me
that not having all these feeds be ATOM instead of RSS doens't matter.

"Specs are like bodily orifices: Everybody has them and they all have
certain unique characteristics. But just writing a spec means nothing.
If you write a spec that no one implements, did it ever really specify
anything?"



> Big companies are always looking hard at some stuff somewhere and 
> when people entertain to keep them happy it's not always pretty. XML 
> Namespaces, SOAP-RPC, JAX*, DOM, WS-*, EJB, WXS, ... you get the idea.
> 
> Like I said elsewhere. Half the problem with this RSS stuff is that 
> it's in a constant rush to be finished.


I am not suggesting to sacrifice quality but some proposals, such as
this one, add little or no benefit while they generate very heated
debates that would delay the final spec.


-Nadeem Bitar


> 
> cheers
> Bill de hÓra