A man labeled RSS Advisory Board checks out a girl labeled New Features while his girlfriend labeled Roadmap stares daggers at him.

There has been recent discussion about the roadmap that was added to the RSS 2.0 specification in August 2002 announcing that there would be no new additions to RSS, freezing its set of elements and attributes forever and ever amen. The roadmap stated, "We anticipate possible 2.0.2 or 2.0.3 versions, etc. only for the purpose of clarifying the specification, not for adding new features to the format."

The RSS Advisory Board was formed 20 years ago to publish the specification and "make minor changes to the spec per the roadmap," as stated in the launch announcement on July 18, 2003.

If you're wondering whether the board has followed the roadmap, this timeline of RSS elements answers that question. There are 44 elements in RSS. This table shows when each element was introduced, the group that added it, and the version in which it first appeared.

There were 33 elements added to RSS by Netscape in 1999 and 11 by UserLand from 2000 to 2002. No elements have been added by the RSS Advisory Board.

Element Date Added Publisher Version
channel 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-description 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-link 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-title 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-image 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-image-link 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-image-title 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-image-url 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-textInput 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-textInput-description 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-textInput-link 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-textInput-name 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-textInput-title 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-item 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-item-link 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
channel-item-title 03/1999 Netscape RSS 0.90
rss 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-copyright 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-docs 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-image-description 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-image-height 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-image-width 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-language 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-lastBuildDate 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-managingEditor 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-pubDate 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-rating 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-skipDays 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-skipDays-day 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-skipHours 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-skipHours-hour 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-webMaster 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-item-description 07/1999 Netscape RSS 0.91
channel-cloud 12/2000 UserLand RSS 0.92
channel-item-category 12/2000 UserLand RSS 0.92
channel-item-enclosure 12/2000 UserLand RSS 0.92
channel-item-source 12/2000 UserLand RSS 0.92
channel-category 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0
channel-generator 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0
channel-ttl 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0
channel-item-author 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0
channel-item-comments 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0
channel-item-guid 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0
channel-item-pubdate 08/2002 UserLand RSS 2.0

A few judgment calls had to be made compiling this list. The image and textInput elements were originally placed under the top-level element of the feed, but that is counted as their introduction even though they later moved inside channel. The rss element wasn't in the first version of RSS created by Netscape. Instead the top-level element was rdf:RDF until it was changed by Netscape to rss four months later.

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