The RSS Advisory Board Just Turned 20

“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.” Today is the 20th birthday of the RSS Advisory Board, the group that publishes the RSS specification . It was formed on July 18, 2003, when the copyright of the specification was transferred to Harvard University, which immediately released it under a Creative Commons license and deferred all matters related to RSS to the new board. At the time of the board’s launch, here’s how the founding members described its purpose : Is the advisory board a standards body?