dave winer, 20 april 2001: "i expect a 60-day discussion period at which time, i will use my best judgement to decide which features are in".

almost an uneventful year later, i start to ask myself why they don't dump rss 0.93? it's all so – well, so oops...

is there more to distinguish in version 0.93 from 1.0 than support for that wacky enclosure feature and weird things like "the cloud" et al. that can be done more flexible via rss processors? is anyone outside of the radio userland community seriously using these options? should everybody really build an own exchange format fitting with one's selfish product-selling strategies?

i don't think so. and i don't feel engaged to support rss 0.93 in the next version of the javascript rss viewer (which will be built with helma, btw).