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Law RSS and Atom
RSS and Atom syndication are increasingly defining the way that news and information is and will be distributed in the future on the internet.
Hence, we need to know something about them.
The main difference between the RSS and Atom syndication standards is that, as written by John Palfrey, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is now the owner and trustee of the RSS specification, whereas the Atom standard is open source.
A short, somewhat dated but understandable history of the development of both standards was written by Glyn Moody at Netcraft.
Other explanatory articles about RSS are found at Radio Userland, RSS Specifications, and Web RRS History.
For current RSS politics, see Sam Ruby's Intertwingly and Dave Winer's Wordpress Blog.
For developments regarding the Atom feed format see the IETF, where Sam Ruby is the secretary for the IETF's atompub (see the Atom publishing protocol).
Dave Winer entertained the idea of merging both formats some time ago, but nothing has come of that.
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 2/24/2006 11:51:00 PM
Law RSS and Atom
RSS and Atom syndication are increasingly defining the way that news and information is and will be distributed in the future on the internet.
Hence, we need to know something about them.
The main difference between the RSS and Atom syndication standards is that, as written by John Palfrey, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is now the owner and trustee of the RSS specification, whereas the Atom standard is open source.
A short, somewhat dated but understandable history of the development of both standards was written by Glyn Moody at Netcraft.
Other explanatory articles about RSS are found at Radio Userland, RSS Specifications, and Web RRS History.
For current RSS politics, see Sam Ruby's Intertwingly and Dave Winer's Wordpress Blog.
For developments regarding the Atom feed format see the IETF, where Sam Ruby is the secretary for the IETF's atompub (see the Atom publishing protocol).
Dave Winer entertained the idea of merging both formats some time ago, but nothing has come of that.
Permalink : Andis Kaulins : 2/24/2006 11:51:00 PM
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