Sam Ruby writes "Lots of really, really, really good progress on RSS. Now, I'd like to make a plea. Slow down."
I'll second Sam's motion!
Since we are, as Jon Udell put it, "...still at the beginning of the RSS adoption curve", it doesn't seem logical to just say "what's done is done" and continue to build on a shaky foundation. Backwards compatability should be a concern --- some transitional and depreciation work is warranted to start straighten the path forward.
I don't think full backward compatibility is possible with all of the RSS formats that have been published. For instance .9 and 1.0 use <rdf:RDF> as their root while the other .9x formats use <rss version="">.
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