Re: [syndication] Is ATOM dead? Did I miss the memo?

[Mark Paschal <markpasc@markpasc.org>]

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:27:59 -0000, Tristan Louis wrote:
> I looked around on ATOMenabled.com and there doesn't seem to be any
> mention of new namespaces.

The Finally Atom weblog keeps more up to date than atomenabled.org,
seems like:

http://danja.typepad.com/fecho/

Since Atom 0.3, the Atom format has moved to the process for becoming
an IETF standard. The current version is draft-ietf-atompub-format-05:

http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-05.txt

It says the proper namespace URI is:

http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-05

The IETF Internet-Draft boilerplate says, "It is inappropriate to use
Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as
'work in progress,'" so as I understand it, pre-Internet-Draft version
0.3 is still the "current version" for implementations. I don't think
anyone is implementing the Atom format past 0.3 until it goes "1.0" as
an IETF RFC, other than to study and develop the format. Tim Bray
wrote recently that the working group is pretty close to submitting
Atom for RFC-ization, though:

http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/01/24/LastAtomIssues
http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/01/30/Engagement

I'm not formally involved with the Atom process, but I hope that
helps.

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Mark Paschal
markpasc@markpasc.org