That's why RSS is frozen. No developer should (or can) code against a moving target. RSS has been in the same place for a long time and look at all that has

That's why RSS is frozen. No developer should (or can) code against a moving target. RSS has been in the same place for a long time and look at all that has developed around it. If we kept changing our minds about how it worked, eventually it would have amounted to nothing. But no one had the power to make those changes, despite how much people complained -- so it stayed put. This is what works. Lies, bullshit, projection, and blatant hypocrisy is par for the course with Dave Winer. He repeatedly edited the 'frozen' spec documents incompatibly without changing the version number. A good introduction: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss He's one of the worst spec writers of all time, responsible for other epic fuckups like OPML, XML-RPC, and SOAP.