Re: Atom Bidi Draft Update - Informal Last Call

["Franklin Tse" <peaceable_whale@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
> 
>