I've completed my RSS article and sent it along for editing. I'm not done with RSS yet as I intend to finish up my work on some RSS facilities for MoveableType.
The debate has continued through the weekend into today with the reported status of "RSS 2.0" and its roadmap ranging from "frozen/last call" to "have we started yet?"
Mark Pilgrim continues to collect and report many interesting posts and viewpoints on the debate here. Sam Ruby points to three different viewpoints, noting one example where the extremely rushed design process has been disappointing with its results.
On a personal level, I found today terribly confusing and disheartening. Who is this shadow committee making these decisions? What is the truth of the matter? "I feel like Fox Mulder" I quipped in one of those emails.
If RSS 2.0 is to be taken seriously it will need to be the community's specification, designed by the community through discussions and debates in a community forum like a mailing list. If its not, we may as well stop trying to further a simple extensible syndication format for the Internet.
This rushed design process of this increasingly vital format simply will not stand.
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