- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:48:50 -0500
- To: public-ietf-w3c@w3.org
I gather it's all over but the crying for the Atom publishing format. Congrats! http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/07/14/Atom-1.0 http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-ietf-atompub-format/ Meanwhile, I'm seeing something of a syndication trend in a bunch of recent announcements from W3C members: December 2004 Yahoo created the Media RSS Module; http://search.yahoo.com/mrss a Feb 2005 revision incorporates community feedback. 2 June 2005 An item in the Google blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/webmaster-friendly.html introduced the Google Sitemaps (BETA) Protocol https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on their websites that are available for crawling. 28 June 2005 An iTunes® 4.9 announcement from Apple http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/28podcast.html introduced some RSS extensions for podcasting. (Apple opened discussion/feedback forum, syndication-dev, on 28 July.) http://lists.apple.com/archives/syndication-dev/ 30 June 2005 A Yahoo! Maps open API announcement http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000136.html showed support for using the Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary in development in the W3C Semantic Web Interest Group. http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ 24 June 2005 An announcement in the IEBlog http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/06/24/432390.aspx showed that RSS in Microsoft Longhorn includes Simple List Extensions. http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/understanding/rss/simplefeedextensions/ We currently use XHTML and RSS/RDF to syndicate our news. http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/ Some relevant points in W3C's history: The design space around things like the google sitemap were discussed at this workshop: Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop May 28-19, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts http://www.w3.org/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/ And we had CDF and the push workshop: March 1997 CDF submission http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-CDFsubmit.html September 1997 push workshop http://www.w3.org/Architecture/9709_Workshop/ An more recently: TAG issue siteData-36 accepted 23 Feb 2003 http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#siteData-36 I get questions occasionally about how W3C and IETF relate in this space, so I thought I'd share at least the background facts that I'm aware of here, and see if any helpful discussion results. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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