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After some lively discussion yesterday (more references below), here are my thoughts.

• We need to come up with something that's easy for the publisher. If it's not, this has approximately 0.142% chance of widespread adoptance.
   
• MIME types alone do not solve the problem - lots of discussion about this on yesterday's post.
   
• Escaping the URL after feed: is going to be way too error prone. Look how many feeds don't correctly escape their content - this is going to be much worse. Which means tools will have to deal with correct and incorrect forms both...so let's just do it the easy way.
   
• Having a "standard" port for aggregators to listen on is a bad idea; and in fact, many folks (including me) would argue that having the aggregator listen on any port is a bad idea.
   
• We're not developing a new protocol - this is merely a hook into the browser and the shell to make it easy to subscribe. The characters "feed:" will never go across the wire in a request. 

With all that said, I'm thinking we just go with

feed:http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/rss.aspx

More reference on this: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Keep the comments coming! Let's try to hammer this out soon - we're all in this to increase adoption of RSS...and arguing over MIME types, parameters, and escaping doesn't get us too much closer to that end.