An announcement about RSS

As noted on Scripting News today, the RSS 2.0 copyright has been transferred to Harvard, the spec has been placed under a Creative Commmons license, and an advisory board -- initially Dave Winer, Brent Simmons, and me -- has been formed.

By way of disclosure, I have no financial stake in any weblog-related products or services. I do, clearly, have a huge personal and professional interest in current and future incarnations of the publish/subscribe technologies now known as weblogs and RSS.

Although the uses and benefits of these technologies have become clear to a lot of us over the last five years, a surprising number of folks in the technical community have yet to really exploit them. And most people outside that narrow community haven't even scratched the surface. I hope my involvement with this effort will help me to help them become more aware of what is now possible.

So what about Pie/Echo/Necho/Atom? I had hoped that project would be able to find more common ground with the RSS legacy while advancing its technical objectives. Prior to this announcement, that didn't seem possible. Frankly, it may still not be, but I think continuity matters so I hope otherwise. Time will tell.

Update: My aggregator brought me an interesting juxtaposition just now:

The second story, by Cathleen Moore, appears on InfoWorld's home page today.

Former URL: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/07/18.html#a751