Suggestions for RSS .92 spec

I’d like to sug­gest a few optional addi­tions to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for discussion:

At the item level

: This would allow us to spec­ify a par­tic­u­lar date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have sev­eral days’ worth of con­tent in their RDF channel.

At the chan­nel level:

These could be encap­su­lated in to an sec­tion that would include all links to out­side of the channel.

: Much like points to the page the chan­nel is for could point to a page of infor­ma­tion about this chan­nel. this could link to a FAQ or more infor­ma­tion about the channel.

: Points to a page where wire­less devices can go.

: Points to a page where broad­band devices can go.

: Points to a page where nar­row­band devices (browsers for blind peo­ple, text-only browsers, etc..) can go.

: Points to a P3P page to check the pri­vacy rules.

: Points to either a VXML source file (which can be read by a VXML browser) or a sound file. For exam­ple, it could serve up a radio feed related to this story.

: Same as above with video or SMIL file.

That said, here’s what a source could look like (changes are bold and URLs are fic­tional (but I cut and pasted my .91 chan­nel con­tent for speed reasons)):

Sug­gested RSS .92 code starts here

NewDocTypeLinkGoesHere
>

92
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[email protected]
            Copyright 1999-present, Me.

            My channel description>/description>
            en-us

http://www.tnl.net/images/TNLpalmlogo.gif

            125
            44
            My channel description


http://www.tnl.net

http://www.tnl.net/about/

http://wap.tnl.net

http://www.tnl.net/100MBpage.html

http://www.tnl.net/under1kpage.html

http://www.tnl.net/p3p.xml

http://www.tnl.net/myvoicebasedchannel.vxml

http://www.tnl.net/myvideofeed.smil

http://www.tnl.net/newsletter/anewstory.html

            Story 1 is described

10/13/2000

http://www.tnl.net/newsletter/olderstory.html

            Happy New Year

01/01/2000

More Details

As part of the deal, I’d also move the orig­i­nal chan­nel link and image link into the exter­nal field under a sin­gle link header (unless some peo­ple can tell me where they have a dif­fer­ent link for the image and the channel.