Greetings again. The Atompub WG will have our first (and maybe last!)
face-to-face meeting at the upcoming IETF meeting in Montreal at the
beginning of July.
The timing of us having our first WG meeting may seem odd, given the
fact that we completed the Atom format document long ago, and are
making good progress on the publishing protocol. However, there are
reasons other than "moving documents forwards" for WGs to meet. Lisa
Dusseault, our Area Director, asked us to have a meeting so that
people active in the Atompub WG can have more interaction with the
IETF, and vice versa. There is interest in the Atom format from other
WGs, and there may be interest in the Atom publishing protocol as
well.
I propose the following agenda, which should fit well into a one-hour slot:
- Intro: 10 mins
- Brief overview of protocol status: 10 mins
- Use of Atom format in other WGs: 30 mins
- draft-saintandre-atompub-notify
- Overlap with calendar formats
- Overlap with mail
Note that we are explicitly *not* going to discuss extensions to the
Atom format at this WG meeting because they are not part of the WG
charter. Lisa has said that she may help arrange a BoF session on
creating a new Working Group for Atom extensions, and having at least
a higher-level discussion of what extensions are out there would be
appropriate in that BoF. But, to use asterisks again, such discussion
is *not* part of the Atompub WG meeting.
See <http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-66.html> for details about the
IETF meeting. I will let the WG know when there are preliminary and
near-permanent agendas for the meeting. It would be good to meet some
of you there!
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
