{"id":46,"date":"2007-05-30T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corneliadavis.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-05-30T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T20:44:33","slug":"atom-10-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/atom-10-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Atom 1.0 Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at Atom a bit and just as it seems to be with many all standards, the first thing is to figure out where things are in the standardization process. I thought I had it figured out a couple of weeks ago, and started a blog post on the subject (which I never quite finished) but now I stumble upon more. Something pretty significant as it relates to Atom, surprising that I didn&#8217;t find it before (read, &#8220;how can I find related content if someone hasn&#8217;t explicitly placed the relationship in the content that I do know about?&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is the overview that I&#8217;ve managed to build:<\/p>\n<li>There are two parts to Atom. 1) the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc4287\">syndication format<\/a><\/em> and 2) the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/internet-drafts\/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-15.txt\">publishing protocol<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The status of&nbsp;<em>syndication format<\/em> is that it is an RFC (Request for Comment), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ietf.org\/rfc\/rfc4287\">RFC4287<\/a>, which kind of means it has reached some level of completion.&nbsp; The document linked here is dated December 2005, though there are numerous articles that credit the completion of the spec as summer of 2005.&nbsp; It&#8217;s worth noting that completion of a spec is not what makes a successful standard &#8211; it is adoption that makes a standard and it looks like in this respect that the Atom syndication format is a winner &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/wiki\/pie\/RoadMap#head-74b5d46318b48115b07ab1a2e77cb22df987c284\">supporters<\/a>.&nbsp; BTW, this version of Atom is called Atom 1.0<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>While the text version of the document is the only normative one, I have found <a href=\"http:\/\/atompub.org\/rfc4287.html\">this HTML version<\/a> to be much friendlier on the eye<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The status of the <em>publishing protocol<\/em> is that an <em>Internet Draft<\/em> is posted &#8211; the link above is to the latest draft dated May 22, 2007.&nbsp; Being an Internet Draft indicates that the specification is still work in progress.&nbsp; Products may support portions of these drafts however, an Internet Draft is still a work in progress and likely to change.<\/li>\n<li>What I found today is an <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/wiki\/pie\/FrontPage\">Atom wiki<\/a> that is being used to work on both the syndication format as well as the publishing protocol.&nbsp; Near as I can tell, all of the Atom notables including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/\">Tim Bray<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snellspace.com\/wp\">James Snell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/blog\/\">Sam Ruby<\/a> and it seems that Sam is putting up the wiki for this group.&nbsp; And while a good number of the issues being discussed center around the publishing protocol, there are also many interesting discussions around enhancements to the syndication format.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t been able to dig up any significant information on whether there are any formalized plans for a new version of the Atom syndication format but will update this post if I unearth anything.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the proposals being discussed on this Atom wiki include the prefix &#8220;Pace&#8221; &#8211; a little digging unearthed a comment made in this mailing list post, in response to a query as to the meaning of this prefix:<\/li>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Originally, I was searching for an acronym. One that perhaps combined words like Proposal, Atom, Change, Enhancement. In the process I found a word that connoted forward motion[1], consensus[2], and peace[3].&#8221; &#8211; Sam Ruby<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at Atom a bit and just as it seems to be with many all standards, the first thing is to figure out where things are in the standardization process. 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