Re: IETF action

[Danny Ayers <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Bray wrote:

> 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/



This is good news, more flattery for Atom. But I think it premature to 
consider it a done deal until there has been time for response on list.

I can only speak for myself, but the W3C still looks a better choice.

Cheers,
Danny.

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