Normative
The following links are normative references from the Atom publishing format and protocol specifications.
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RFC 2045 -- Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.
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RFC 2119 -- Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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RFC 2396 -- Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396, August 1998.
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RFC 2629 -- Rose, M., "Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML", RFC 2629, June 1999.
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RFC 2822 -- Resnick, P., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, April 2001.
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RFC 3023 -- Murata, M., St. Laurent, S. and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.
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RFC 3066 -- Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the Identification of Languages", BCP 47, RFC 3066, January 2001.
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W3C.NOTE-datetime-19980827 -- Wolf, M. and C. Wicksteed, "Date and Time Formats", W3C NOTE NOTE-datetime-19980827, August 1998. newest version
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W3C.REC-xml-infoset-20011024 -- Cowan, J. and R. Tobin, "XML Information Set", W3C REC REC-xml-infoset-20011024, October 2001. newest version
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W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114 -- Bray, T., Hollander, D. and A. Layman, "Namespaces in XML", W3C REC REC-xml-names-19990114, January 1999. newest version
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W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627 -- Marsh, J., "XML Base", W3C REC REC-xmlbase-20010627, June 2001. newest version
Non-normative
The following links are non-normative references from the Atom publishing format and protocols specifications.
Strongly influential
The following links strongly influence the Atom publishing and protocols specs but are not referenced explicitly.
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RFC 3470 -- Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols. S. Hollenbeck, M. Rose, L. Masinter. January 2003.
Influential
The following links influence the Atom publishing and protocols specs but are not referenced explicitly.
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RFC 2434 -- Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs. T. Narten, H. Alvestrand. October 1998. Updated by RFC 3692.
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RFC 3339 -- G. Klyne, "Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps"
Miscellaneous
These links are useful in understanding the Atom specifications but may or may not have strongly influenced its current form.