[occi-wg] Microsoft: "Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) as the future direction"

[Tim Bray]

On May 12, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:

> Sam,
>
> That's a great spot - thanks for posting it.
>
> I'm not convinced that MS claims for 'REST' stand up under scrutiny,
> but it is interesting to see AtomPub getting a boost.
>
> I thought this was quite interesting too:
> http://www.defuze.org/archives/171-atom-and-atompub-were-failed.html

I'm reasonably happy with AtomPub's progress, and think it will  
continue to do OK.  If I were paranoid and cynical, I would point out  
that anyone who offers users AtomPub access to their data has given up  
the ability to lock them in, and that this might be part of the  
explanation why lots of services aren't yet.  -Tim