We recently posted two drafts to the IETF Data Tracker. This is the first major step towards standardizing parts of AT in an effort to establish long-term governance for the protocol.
Introduction · Standard Reader
Build on Standard — an open reading network on the AT Protocol. What the developer docs cover.
Glossary of terms - AT Protocol
A collection of terminology used in the AT Protocol and their definitions.
Drafts, private data, and obscurity.
The at:// protocol currently lacks any real means to have data which is both 'on-protocol', i.e. stored on your PDS in a way that you can guarantee access to...
Drafts, private data, and obscurity.
The at:// protocol currently lacks any real means to have data which is both 'on-protocol', i.e. stored on your PDS in a way that you can guarantee access to...
Essential Resources for Getting Started with AT Protocol
A set of critical links for anyone interested in getting started with AT Protocol and exploring the landscape
Understanding AT Protocol
I’ve been playing around with AT Protocol. The posts on this site are now published to standard.site, and I’ve written a (very basic) WordPress plugin to display posts from my PDS on the Now page of this site.
Streaming Data - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol
Synchronizing and streaming data from the AT Protocol.
AT Protocol Roadmap (Spring 2026) - AT Protocol
Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Permissioned Data and Account Experience.
AT Protocol Roadmap (Spring 2026) - AT Protocol
Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Permissioned Data and Account Experience.
AT Protocol
The AT Protocol is a protocol and set of open standards for decentralized publishing and distribution of self-authenticating data within the social web. It serves as the technical foundation of the Bluesky social network, originally developed as a reference implementation for the protocol, as well as an ecosystem of interoperable social applications and services collectively referred to as the ATmosphere.
AT Protocol Primer
What is the AT Protocol and why does it matter in the grand scheme of the web
Some very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!
[Atp] personnel assignments for ATP
mailarchive.ietf.orgSome very exciting news - it looks like the working group for AT Protocol at the IETF has been approved! (though not formalized in the datatracker just yet) This is a big milestone in the standards process. But is also just the start of the actual process - years of meetings & work ahead!
[Atp] personnel assignments for ATP
mailarchive.ietf.orgI've been working on an "at protocol notion". One of the things that has been holding it up has been coming to terms with the oddities of putting this data on a PDS. A document is a collection of edits, whose edits we collect will change that document pretty substantially. This is a feature
