Re: W3C response to proposed Atom Publishing Format and Protocol (atompub) working group

[Graham <dtcd@xxxxxxx>]

On 14 May 2004, at 2:44 am, Eric Miller wrote:

> Further, a quick scan of the Atom participants and it strikes me there 
> are many individuals who already work for W3C organizations so this 
> actually helps :).

Yes but basically everyone who actually produces syndication and 
blogging tools would be forced to appear as an invited guest*, since 
the tools are mostly produced by independents, so it seems like the 
only way to make this work at the W3C would be to bend the W3C's rules 
and processes to be just like the IETF's, so why not just go to them?

Graham Parks

(* Of course whether Sam considers tool developers to be at all 
relevant to the process is still an open question)