From Tim Bray
It’s cooked and ready to serve. There are a couple of IETF process things to do, but this draft (HTML version) is essentially Atom 1.0. Now would be a good time for implementors to roll up their sleeves and go to work. Here’s a comparison of RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0, here’s a list of known Atom feeds (which I bet doesn’t even last a few weeks), and Sam Ruby is updating the Feed Validator. I’ll update this page regularly with Atom-related news and feeds and pointers, send word if you want yours included.
Tests A collection of Atom feed-format tests is under construction here, Sam Ruby’s leading the charge but feel free to participate. ¶
Contributors My personal thank-you to the contributors is here. ¶
Feeds Not only is there an ongoing Atom feed, it’s a full-text feed. ¶
Process Details The Atom 1.0 spec still has one registered objection from a member of the IESG, but the WG agreed that the objection was reasonable and we think the latest draft linked above fixes it; assuming he agrees, Atom very soon becomes an IETF standard. It will eventually get an RFC number, but that may take a while, first because the RFC Editor machinery works slowly, and secondly because we have a normative reference to Ned Freed’s re-work of the MIME-type RFCs, which isn’t quite finished yet. ¶
I just want to say, the Atompub working group has been outstanding. Not always polite, but intense and hard-working and insightful. Not selfish, either; we had to go prompt the mailing-list contributors individually asking them if they wanted to be in the acknowledgments section. The Net owes a thank-you to: Danny Ayers, James Aylett, Roger Benningfield, Arve Bersvendsen, Dan Brickley, Thomas Broyer, Robin Cover, Bill de hÓra, Martin Duerst, Roy Fielding, Joe Gregorio, Bjoern Hoehrmann, Paul Hoffman, Anne van Kesteren, Brett Lindsley, Dare Obasanjo, David Orchard, Aristotle Pagaltzis, John Panzer, Graham Parks, Dave Pawson, Mark Pilgrim, David Powell, Julian Reschke, Phil Ringnalda, Antone Roundy, Sam Ruby, Eric Scheid, Brent Simmons, Henri Sivonen, Ray Slakinski, James Snell, Henry Story, Asbjørn Ulsberg, Walter Underwood, Norman Walsh, Dave Winer, and Bob Wyman.