As far as I can tell, it went like this:
- Mark Nottingham wrote an RFC called Feed Paging and Archiving.
- In order to publish an RFC through the IETF, you need to get your references in order.
- Since feed paging and archiving can be added to an RSS feed, one of those references is RSS 2.0.
- There appears to be a difference of opinion as to which of the many incompatible RSS 2.0 specs should be cited. Hilarity ensues.
- As of this writing, the citation will look like this.
As fate would have it, I read the latest feed-history draft just last week, after someone asked about adding support for it in feedparser. This problem actually occurred to me in passing. Then I took a nice satisfying shit and forgot all about it.


And I thought that first “s” stood for “simple”
Comment by David Avraamides — Wednesday, May 16, 2007 @ 8:35 pm