RSS Profile Design Considerations
Tim Appnel: A very productive discussion of an RSS profile has continued throughout the weekend and into this morning. Enthusiastically many have dived in - myself included. I still maintain that an important consideration has not been discussed and needs to. What are our design goals with this profile?
My primary motivation is to discover the best practices that can be codified in the RSS validator. IMHO, people don't read specs unless they have to. And the RSS validator has already noticeably improved the overall level of quality of RSS feeds.
Implementation will likely commence next month. Don's RSS Profile and the RSS Profile Wiki will be taken as input, as well as any others such efforts that we can find.