It's amazing how similar this is already to the RSS/Atom format wars: Widely read blogger independently develops a simple file specification that addresses a r

It's amazing how similar this is already to the RSS/Atom format wars: Widely read blogger independently develops a simple file specification that addresses a real world problem. Simple file format becomes a de facto standard. Developers gripe about ambiguities in the specification. Effort to create a formal, standardized specification is launched. This new effort is publicly denounced by the original specification author.