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Why We Need Echo

Ben and Mena Trott have written an article on why we need Echo.  Echo is the proposed alternative to RSS.  The points made by the Trott’s are:

  1. The RSS spec does not say how to encode content.
  2. XML-RPC is severely lacking in internationalization (I18N) support.
  3. Content is represented differently in an API than it is in a syndicated feed.
  4. Confusion over elements.
  5. No universally-supported and -defined extensions.

It is definitely worth a read.

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