RSS Profile is up and about

After 18 months of work the RSS Advisory Board has come up with RSS Profile – a document that aims to be the second document that programmers consult when implementing RSS, in other words a set of best-practice recommendations for RSS. The lead authors of RSS Profile are James Holderness, Randy Charles Morin, Geoffrey Sneddon and Rogers Cadenhead.

For the last 18 months, the RSS Advisory Board has been drafting a set of best-practice recommendations for RSS. Working with the developers of browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, aggregators such as Bloglines and Google Reader, and blogging tools including Movable Type, we’ve looked for areas where questions about the RSS format have led to differences in how software has been implemented to produce and consume RSS feeds… The profile isn’t a set of rules; it’s a set of suggestions drafted by programmers and web publishers who’ve been working with RSS since the format’s first release in 1999. Our goal is for the profile to be the second document programmers consult when they’re learning how to implement RSS.[Source]

The RSS Profile can be found here and the proposal to publish the RSS Profile can be found here.

But who is the RSS Advisory Board?

The RSS Advisory Board is an independent organization with three primary duties: publishing the RSS specification, guiding developers who create RSS applications and broadening the public understanding of RSS.[Source]