"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. The publication of RFC 4287 (The Atom Syndication Format) and RFC 5023 (The Atom Publishing Protocol) represent three years of effort by the members of the working group..."