IETF action

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

I've just been informed that today the IESG met and approved the 
creation of an IETF Atom Working Group; the announcement should appear 
on ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx in the next few days.  I'm told they looked 
at the commentary on standards orgs in this mailing list, and 
considered the fact that (according to Paul) from the beginning of the 
mailing list to May 1 of this year (about 10 months), about 80 
different people had posted 5 or more messages, and about 35 different 
people had posted 20 or more messages.

So *they* think that we have rough consensus to work in the IETF space. 
 Personally, I agree.  I can only speak for myself but I think much of 
the community would agree that we're flattered at the W3C expression of 
interest and that this one could have gone either way without much 
angst.

Unless something happens to convince us that we've misread the 
community's feelings, I'm going to turn my Atom energies from this to 
getting us organized; it's painfully apparent that we need issue 
numbers and draft revisions and so on and so on.

Cheers, Tim Bray  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/