Editing Web feed (section)

==History==
[[Dave Winer]] published a modified version of the RSS 0.91 specification on the [[UserLand Software|UserLand]] website, covering how it was being used in his company's products and claimed copyright to the document.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://backend.userland.com/rss091#copyrightAndDisclaimer |title=RSS 0.91: Copyright and Disclaimer |last=Winer |first=Dave |date=June 4, 2000 |publisher=[[UserLand Software]] |access-date=October 31, 2006}}</ref> A few months later, UserLand filed a U.S. trademark registration for RSS, but failed to respond to a [[USPTO]] trademark examiner's request and the request was rejected in December 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78025336 |title='RSS' Trademark Latest Status Info |last=U.S. Patent & Trademark Office}}</ref>

The [[RSS-DEV Working Group]], a project whose members included Guha and representatives of [[O'Reilly Media]] and Moreover, produced RSS 1.0 in December 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec |title=RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 |last=RSS-DEV Working Group |date=December 9, 2000 |access-date=October 31, 2006}}</ref> This new version, which reclaimed the name RDF Site Summary from RSS 0.9, reintroduced support for RDF and added [[XML namespaces]] support, adopting elements from standard metadata vocabularies such as [[Dublin Core]].

In December 2000, Winer released RSS 0.92<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://backend.userland.com/rss092 |title=RSS 0.92 Specification |last=Winer |first=Dave |date=December 25, 2000 |publisher=[[UserLand Software]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131184230/http://backend.userland.com/rss092 |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=October 31, 2006}}</ref>
a minor set of changes aside from the introduction of the enclosure element, which permitted audio files to be carried in RSS feeds and helped spark [[podcast]]ing. He also released drafts of RSS 0.93 and RSS 0.94 that were subsequently withdrawn.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://backend.userland.com/rss093 |title=RSS 0.93 Specification |last=Winer |first=Dave |date=April 20, 2001 |publisher=[[UserLand Software]] |access-date=October 31, 2006}}</ref>

In September 2002, Winer released a major new version of the format, RSS 2.0, that redubbed its initials Really Simple Syndication. RSS 2.0 removed the ''type'' attribute added in the RSS 0.94 draft and added support for namespaces.

Because neither Winer nor the RSS-DEV Working Group had Netscape's involvement, they could not make an official claim on the RSS name or format. This has fueled ongoing controversy in the syndication development community as to which entity was the proper publisher of RSS.

One product of that contentious debate was the creation of an alternative syndication format, Atom, that began in June 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/Battle-of-the-blog/2009-1032_3-5059006.html |title=Dispute exposes bitter power struggle behind Web logs |last=Festa |first=Paul |date=August 4, 2003 |publisher=news.cnet.com |access-date=August 6, 2008 |quote=The conflict centers on something called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), a technology widely used to syndicate blogs and other Web content. The dispute pits Harvard Law School fellow Dave Winer, the blogging pioneer who is the key gatekeeper of RSS, against advocates of a different format.}}</ref> The Atom syndication format, whose creation was in part motivated by a desire to get a clean start free of the issues surrounding RSS, has been adopted as {{IETF RFC|4287}}.

In July 2003, Winer and UserLand Software assigned the copyright of the RSS 2.0 specification to Harvard's [[Berkman Center for Internet & Society]], where he had just begun a term as a visiting fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rssboard.org/advisory-board-notes |title=Advisory Board Notes |date=July 18, 2003 |publisher=[[RSS Advisory Board]] |access-date=September 4, 2007}}</ref> At the same time, Winer launched the [[RSS Advisory Board]] with [[Brent Simmons]] and [[Jon Udell]], a group whose purpose was to maintain and publish the specification and answer questions about the format.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.scripting.com/2003/07/18.html#rss20News |title=RSS 2.0 News |publisher=[[Dave Winer]] |access-date=September 4, 2007}}</ref>

In December 2005, the Microsoft Internet Explorer team<ref name="rssteam"/> and
Outlook team<ref>[http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/archive/2005/12/15/504316.aspx RSS icon goodness], blog post by Michael A. Affronti of Microsoft (Outlook Program Manager), December 15, 2005</ref> announced on their blogs that they were adopting the feed icon first used in the Mozilla [[Firefox]] [[Web Browser|browser]] [[File:Feed-icon.svg|16px]], created by Stephen Horlander, a Mozilla Designer. A few months later, [[Opera Software]] followed suit. This effectively made the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard for RSS and Atom feeds, replacing the large variety of icons and text that had been used previously to identify syndication data.

In January 2006, [[Rogers Cadenhead]] relaunched the RSS Advisory Board without Dave Winer's participation, with a stated desire to continue the development of the RSS format and resolve ambiguities. In June 2007, the board revised their version of the specification to confirm that namespaces may extend core elements with namespace attributes, as Microsoft has done in Internet Explorer 7. According to their view, a difference of interpretation left publishers unsure of whether this was permitted or forbidden.