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Some people want you to believe that the RSS Advisory Board is unofficial and doesn't have the mandate to make clarifications to the RSS specification. I thought it would be great to create a time-line of the RSS Advisory Board. So that you can read the history yourself, thru blog entries, many from the horses mouth, Dave Winer's blogs.

  • July 17 2003 - The RSS Advisory Board is created. The initial members are Dave Winer, Jon Udell and Brent Simmons.
  • July 17 2003 - The RSS Advisory Board mandate is described as "write tech notes, advocate for RSS, make minor changes to the spec per the roadmap, help people use the technology, send flowers to developers, maintain a directory of compatible applications, accept contributions from community members, and otherwise do what we can to help people and organizations be successful with RSS." Note that it includes making minor changes to the spec per the roadmap.
  • February 3 2004 - Dave asks me what I'd do if I were on the RSS Advisory Board.
  • May 14 2004 - Rogers Cadenhead, Andrew Grumet and Adam Curry are added to the RSS Advisory Board.
  • June 4 2004 - The RSS Advisory Board proposes its first clarification to the RSS 2.0 specification.
  • June 19 2004 - The proposed clarifications are added to the RSS 2.0 specification.
  • June 25 2004 - Dave Winer resigns from the RSS Advisory Board. Dave blogs "I feel that the process for clarifying the spec is now well-understood by the existing members." An admission that the board retains the right to clarify the specification.
  • July 5 2004 - Steve Zellers is added to the RSS Advisory Board. There was never any announcement and nobody ever mentioned his role other than myself.
  • September 15 2004 - Dave Winer acknowledges that the RSS Advisory Board still has work. "A perennial problem with RSS is how does the publisher force an unsubscribe? [cut] And many content people can't change their server in this way. I'm no longer on the RSS advisory board, so I won't be playing a role in solving the problem, but it needs to be solved. "
  • December 2 2005 - I badgered the RSS Advisory Board lack of action and asked Rogers Cadenhead to replace the existing passive members.
  • January 30 2006 - The RSS Advisory Board expands to include Meg Hourihan, Loic Le Meur, Eric Lunt, Ross Mayfield, Jenny Levine, myself, Greg Reinacker and David Sifry.
  • March 22 2006 - Greg Smith joins the RSS Advisory Board.
  • April 24 2006 - Jason Shellen and Jake Savin join the RSS Advisory Board.
  • May 8 2006 - Matthew Bookspan joins the RSS Advisory Board.
  • June 21 2006 - Jason Douglas joins the RSS Advisory Board.
  • August 12 2006 - The RSS Advisory Board adopts minor changes to the RSS 2.0 specification.
  • October 3 2006 - James Holderness and Paul Querna join the RSS Advisory Board.
  • December 14 2006 - The RSS Advisory Board publishes the auto-discovery specification.
  • March 12 2007 - Chris Finke joins the RSS Advisory Board.
  • June 6 2007 - The RSS Advisory Board adopts minor changes to the RSS 2.0 specification.

Nowhere was there ever any announcement that the RSS Advisory Board ceased to exist. Rogers Cadenhead was a member of the board along side Dave Winer and has been on the board ever since. None of the members other than Dave Winer have ever suggested that the board discontinued at any point and Dave only after the fact. Dave is simply upset with the direction of the RSS Advisory Board since he quit on his own terms. So now, he claims the RSS Advisory Board doesn't exist, as if his blog can change history itself.

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