Ken MacLeod
2006-05-12 14:35:30 UTC
There was brief discussion of this early last month. Below is the
link to the draft application/rss+xml registration. Not sure why Jon
or Bill didn't Cc here. Check the followups from the rss-public link
for discussion.
I'm +1.
-- Ken
-------- From Rogers Cadenhead --------
---- <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/635> ----
This is an official proposal made by Rogers Cadenhead and seconded by
Greg Smith. The RSS Advisory Board have seven days of discussion on
the proposal followed by seven days in which members can vote on it.
Proposal
This proposal is being made jointly by Jon Hanna and Bill Kearney of
the RSS-DEV Working Group [1] and Rogers Cadenhead and Greg Smith of
the RSS Advisory Board [2].
One of the most reliable ways for software to distinguish different
kinds of files on the Internet is through a MIME media type [3], an
identifier that's part of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
standard [4].
Web servers return a Content-Type header that identifies the kind of
file being returned, such as "text/html" for an HTML page, "image/gif"
for a GIF graphics file, and "application/atom+xml" for Atom
syndicated feeds.
RSS documents lack an an official media type.
If a media type was defined for RSS, when a user opened an RSS feed in
a web browser, the browser could open the document with the user's
preferred software -- just as browsers crank up an MP3 player when a
link to an MP3 is clicked.
Media types must be requested from the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority with a formal application that chooses the desired type,
explains the nature of the content, and describes why the type is needed.
Hanna, Kearney, Smith and I have prepared an application to request
"application/rss+xml" as the official media type for RSS documents:
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txt
We propose that the RSS-Dev Working Group and RSS Advisory Board
request "application/rss+xml" as the desired media type for RSS
documents and encourage its use for all versions of RSS, whether they
use the RDF Site Summary specification or Really Simple Syndication
specification.
1: http://groups.yahoo.com/messages/rss-dev
2: http://www.rssboard.org/
3: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
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link to the draft application/rss+xml registration. Not sure why Jon
or Bill didn't Cc here. Check the followups from the rss-public link
for discussion.
I'm +1.
-- Ken
-------- From Rogers Cadenhead --------
---- <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/635> ----
This is an official proposal made by Rogers Cadenhead and seconded by
Greg Smith. The RSS Advisory Board have seven days of discussion on
the proposal followed by seven days in which members can vote on it.
Proposal
This proposal is being made jointly by Jon Hanna and Bill Kearney of
the RSS-DEV Working Group [1] and Rogers Cadenhead and Greg Smith of
the RSS Advisory Board [2].
One of the most reliable ways for software to distinguish different
kinds of files on the Internet is through a MIME media type [3], an
identifier that's part of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
standard [4].
Web servers return a Content-Type header that identifies the kind of
file being returned, such as "text/html" for an HTML page, "image/gif"
for a GIF graphics file, and "application/atom+xml" for Atom
syndicated feeds.
RSS documents lack an an official media type.
If a media type was defined for RSS, when a user opened an RSS feed in
a web browser, the browser could open the document with the user's
preferred software -- just as browsers crank up an MP3 player when a
link to an MP3 is clicked.
Media types must be requested from the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority with a formal application that chooses the desired type,
explains the nature of the content, and describes why the type is needed.
Hanna, Kearney, Smith and I have prepared an application to request
"application/rss+xml" as the official media type for RSS documents:
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-mime-type-application.txt
We propose that the RSS-Dev Working Group and RSS Advisory Board
request "application/rss+xml" as the desired media type for RSS
documents and encourage its use for all versions of RSS, whether they
use the RDF Site Summary specification or Really Simple Syndication
specification.
1: http://groups.yahoo.com/messages/rss-dev
2: http://www.rssboard.org/
3: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
rss-dev-unsubscribe-***@public.gmane.org
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/