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(U) The Syndication Standard: Will It Be RSS or Atom?
FROM:
Chief, NSOC Operations Support Staff (DN090)
Run Date: 04/21/2004
FROM:
Chief, NSOC Operations Support Staff (DN090)
(U//FOUO) A few weeks ago, we reported on a technology called RSS, or Really Simple
Syndication , which is used throughout the Internet to syndicate and publish web content, and
we discussed its use within NSA, and particularly within NSOC. In the interest of fair and
balanced reporting, we want to mention a brand-new competitor to RSS - the Atom Syndication
Format.
(U//FOUO) Although RSS is still widely popular on the World Wide Web, it does have its
shortcomings, mainly due to the fact that the RSS 2.0 specification is "frozen." Atom intends to
address many of the shortcomings of RSS, including development of an Atom API* and
sponsorship of the Atom standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). However, the
most obvious evidence to date of the potential success of Atom is that Google has elected to
bypass RSS in favor of Atom as its syndication standard.
(U//FOUO) If you would like more information about RSS, Atom, or content syndication in
general, please contact the NSOC web team (DL NSOCWEB) at
NSTS.
*(U) API = Application Program Interface
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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