The effort among Atom supporters to create a standard XML syndication format took a new turn this week as the Web's leading standards body suggested a new route.
The World Wide Web Consortium invited the Atom community to form a working group under its auspices, rather than within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Atom proponents since have been pursuing the formation of a working group in the IETF, a first step toward creating a formal standard.
Atom is an alternative syndication format to RSS (Really Simple Syndication), and the rise of dueling formats has created disagreement, and at times acrimony, among their backers. In March, the major proponent of RSS and its co-author, Dave Winer, suggested the merging of Atom and RSS into a common format in a process managing through a major standards body.
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