Six Log: A Proposal: RSS for Weblogs
On Scripting News, Dave writes:

We could establish a profile of RSS 2.0 and implement strict compliance with that profile in the major blogging tools.

This has been followed by a discussion of the issues on Sam's weblog, with a lot of discussion over whether the core profile should be based on RSS 1.0, 2.0, or whether it's really necessary at all.

What we need is a profile of RSS specific to weblogs: "RSS for Weblogs".

RSS 1.0 and 2.0 are designed for extensibility, and can be used to represent non-weblog data. Currently they're really only being used for weblogs/news feeds, and Dave has said in the past that RSS is intended only as a news/syndication format. But the point of making RSS extensible is so that new features can easily be added, and new types of data can be represented.…
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/05/10#letsGetReadyNow
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1393.html
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/09/23#When:8:59:58PM
Six Log: A Proposal: RSS for Weblogs