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Randy Charles Morin: Atom is dragging out. Rss is not moving. Sigh.

I could not have said it better myself.

• It is clear that information about Atom is too diffusely spread out, making it difficult for people to grasp and evaluate the completely picture.
• I am working on two presentations for next week.  I will attempt to pull together the big picture in these presentations.  These presentations will be posted on the web for all to see.  They will cover Atom on an element by element basis.
• Atom is based on RSS in exactly the same sense that RSS is based on protocols that came before it.  Attribution will be specifically given to Netscape, UserLand, and the RSS-DEV working group.  I welcome constructive suggestions for additions to this list.  I am not particularly interested in hearing reasons why one or more of these names should not be listed.
• It is time for an overhaul of the feedvalidator.  Some of the checks were based on limitations of popular validators at the time.  These questions have been discussed, but have never been resolved.  Such checks will be removed pending resolution.  One thing I would like to hear input on is whether or not people consider these directories as an authoritative list of what modules are allowed on a RSS version basis.
• I have no plans on stopping publishing either RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 feeds myself.  In fact I do plan to maintain the validity of those feeds.  So, if consensus is reached as to what is or is not valid in such a feed, I will see to it that such checks are codified into the validator and that my feed conforms.
• I will respect the RSS 2.0 roadmap.

I have seen outrageous statements made in the past few days, both for and against Atom.  Let me remind everybody that I moderate my comments.  If you wish to engage in hyperbole, please do so on your own weblog.