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RSS 0.90 and 091 now in the care of the RSS Advisory Board

by Juned on January 23rd, 2008

Netscape announced that RSS 0.90 and 0.91 are being transferred to the RSS Advisory Board.

The RSS specification documents, DTDs, and help files for the first versions of RSS (v0.9, v0.91) are being moved to RSSBoard.org, where they will be hosted by the RSS Advisory Board in perpetuity. Netscape will continue to host these files (via redirect) on the My Netscape domain (my.netscape.com) until August 1st, 2008.[Source]

Another critical bit of news from the transfer:

All websites that produce RSS 0.9 or RSS 0.91 feeds will need to either convert to using the current standard (RSS v2.0), or if desired, convert their v0.9/v0.91 feeds properly using this guide, provided by the RSS Advisory Board, by August 1st. [Source]

The transfer will allow the continued availability of the specifications via the RSS Board. The specifications still receives four million hits a day from XML parsing software.

Further information and discussion about this can be obtained here.

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