No approval means no ATOM working group - not until this all gets sorted out anyways. As a standards development effort, I think its safe to say that ATOM has officially stalled out.

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Subject: IESG Review of ATOMPUB WG Charter
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:37:54 -0400
From: Scott Hollenbeck
To: <snip>

All,

The ATOMPUB WG was not approved during today's IESG
telechat, primarilybecause of comments sent to the
IESG from Eric Miller of the W3C (cc'd to the atom-syntax
mailing list).  Ted and I need to talk to the W3C-IETF
liaison people, the WG proponents, and the W3C TAG. 
Leslie Daigle (IETF liaison to the W3C) has the action
to set up the call.

-Scott-