Re: Atom Bidi Draft Update - Informal Last Call

[James M Snell <jasnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is not year clear if there has been enough independent implementation
of the specification to justify publishing it as a proposed standard.

- James

Franklin Tse wrote:
> James,
> 
> Why are you going to recommend that for publication as an experimental or informational draft, but not a Proposed Standard?
> 
> Franklin Tse
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James M Snell" <jasnell@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "atom-syntax" <atom-syntax@xxxxxxx>; "atom-protocol" <atom-protocol@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 00:59
> Subject: Atom Bidi Draft Update - Informal Last Call
> 
>> I have posted an updated version of the Atom Bidi Draft.  The only
>> significant difference is a notice about direction guess algorithms.
>>
>>  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-bidi-03.txt
>>
>> I have implemented support for this specification in Abdera and in IBM's
>> updated internal blogging environment.
>>
>> The specification adds a new attribute "dir" to the set of common
>> attribute attributes within the Atom namespace.  The dir attribute
>> specifies the default directionality of language-sensitive text within
>> an Atom document.
>>
>> example,
>>
>> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; dir="rtl">
>>  ...
>> </entry>
>>
>> At this point, I intend to request a formal last call on the document
>> and recommend it for publication as an experimental or informational draft.
>>
>> Feedback is requested.
>>
>> - James
>>
>>
>