Network Working Group M. Nottingham
Internet-Draft October 23, 2001
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The application/rss+xml Media Type
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Abstract
This document specifies the Media Type for the RSS format. RSS
allows lists of information to be exchanged in an XML-based format.
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1. Introduction
RSS is a lightweight, multipurpose, extensible metadata description
and syndication format. RSS is an XML application.
RSS is currently used for a number of applications, including news
and other headline syndication, weblog syndication, and the
propogation of software update lists. It is generally used for any
situation when a machine-readable list of textual items and/or
metadata about them needs to be distributed.
There are a number of revisions [2][3][4][5] of the RSS format
defined, many of which are actively used. This memo defines a media
type, application/rss+xml for all versions of RSS.
2. Registration Information
To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of MIME media type application/rss+xml
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: rss+xml
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters:
charset
Same as charset parameter of application/xml as specified in
RFC3023 [1].
revision
The optional revision parameter indicates the version of RSS used;
the value is specified by the target RSS version. In practice,
this value should be an XML Namespace [6], if defined (e.g.,
'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/' for RSS 1.0), or a revision number if
not (e.g., "0.92" for RSS 0.92).
Encoding considerations:
Same as encoding considerations of application/xml as specified in
RFC3023 [1].
Security considerations:
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The security considerations outlined in RFC3023 [1] apply.
Published specification(s):
RSS 0.9 [2]
RSS 0.91 [3]
RSS 0.92 [4]
RSS 1.0 [5]
Applications which use this media type:
RSS editors, producers and aggregators.
2.1 Additional information:
Magic number(s):
There is no single initial byte sequence that is always present in
RSS files. See RFC3023 [1] for information about the
identification of XML media types.
File extension(s): .rss
Macintosh File Type Code(s): "TEXT"
Person & email address to contact for further information:
The author of this memo.
Intended usage: COMMON
Author/Change controller(s):
RSS 0.9 was a product of Netscape Communications, and was authored
by:
Dan Libby
RSS 0.91 was a product of Netscape Communications, and was authored
by:
Dan Libby
RSS 0.92 is a product of UserLand Software, and is authored by:
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Dave Winer
RSS 1.0 is a product of an ad-hoc working group, rss-dev[7], and was
authored by:
Gabe Beged-Dov
Dan Brickley
Rael Dornfest
Ian Davis
Leigh Dodds
Jonathan Eisenzopf
R.V. Guha
Ken MacLeod
Eric Miller
Aaron Swartz
Eric van der Vlist
References
[1] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S. and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types", RFC
3023, January 2001.
[2] Libby, D., "RDF Site Summary (RSS) 0.9", May 2001,
.
[3] Libby, D., "RSS 0.91 Spec, revision 3", July 1999,
.
[4] Winer, D., "RSS 0.92", December 2000,
.
[5] Beged-Dov, G., Brickley, D., Dornfest, R., Davis, I., Dodds, L.,
Eisenzopf, J., Guha, R., MacLeod, K., Miller, E., Swartz, A. and
E. van der Vlist, "RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0", May 2001,
.
[6] Bray, T., Hollander, D. and A. Layman, "Namespaces in XML",
January 1999,
.
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[7]
Author's Address
Mark Nottingham
Burlingame, CA 94010
US
EMail: mnot-rss@mnot.net
URI: http://www.mnot.net/
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