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"The Atom Publishing Protocol (aka AtomPub) is now a Proposed Standard Protocol from the IETF as RFC 5023. The Atom Working Group was formed in June of 2004 with the goals of producing a new syndication format and a new publishing protocol.
"One of the thinmgs I would like to do is to interact with Atompub (aka Atom Publishing Protocol) stores in Javascript through the browser. Since this effectively the browser itself interacting with the Atompub server, browser-like authentication methods would be nice. But services like Atompub don’t work nicely with the kinds of authentication methods that normal websites use.
"...The Atom Publishing Protocol or simply APP, is the web services part of the Atom Working Group’s work. [...] The counterpart to APP is the Atom Syndication Format (ASF) that was approved last year...
"A little while ago I decided to whip up a small Atompub server to get my head around the Atom Publishing Protocol. I called it FlatAtomPub because it was just storing stuff in flat files. I’m not committing to that name. It was also a chance to kick the tires on WebOb..."
"...If everyone is going to be willing to code their clients to work with every different set of publishing-system idiosyncrasies, then Atompub will have been a waste of time. But that doesn’t seem plausible to me."
"I’ve been really enjoying working with Tim Bray, Pete Lacey, Elias Torres and Sam Ruby on improving AtomPub in WordPress. This work is in WordPress 2.3, which will be released later this month. You can try it out right now by downloading the beta. Sam has also started some documentation on AtomPub in WordPress at http://codex.wordpress.org/AtomPub..."
The company behind the BitTorrent technology has opened the source code of its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP). A production-ready implementation of the protocol code in C++ is now available from GitHub under the MIT license.
