Greetings again. Sam's recent work queue rotation marks what we consider to be the likely final rotation before we are finished with the Atom format draft. That is, the goal is that, once we accept or close all of the items from the rotation, the format document editors will have a complete picture of what the WG wants in the Atom format spec.
(For those of you new to this process, the full list of "currently under discussion" is at <http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/AtomPubIssuesList>.)
This ties in nicely with our goal of turning the format spec in for IETF Last Call before March. Of course, changes can (and probably will) be made based on the input to the WG from the IETF Last call. Those changes can come from the IETF community as a whole or from the WG as we stare one more time at the document (and as the implementers write code to it). However, there is a goal of not needing to revise the document after IETF Last Call; that is, we don't send the document to the IETF for review if we know that there are topics on which there is WG consensus that is not reflected in the document.
So, please take a look at all of the Paces listed as "currently under discussion" and comment freely. We're getting close to being finished, which is of course the over-arching goal.
--Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
