Specs-and-RFCs-used.md

Specs and RFCs used

• ActivityPub
  Federation protocol
• WebFinger
  User-on-domain lookups
• HTTP Signatures
  Server-to-server authentication of requests
• Linked Data Signatures
  Server-to-server authentication of forwarded payloads
• OStatus
  Suite of federation protocols
  • Salmon
    Delivery of targeted events to users
  • Portable Contacts
    Encoding profile information in Atom
  • Atom
    Representing user feeds
  • Atom ActivityStreams
    Encoding rich social post metadata
  • Atom Threading
    Encoding chains of conversations
  • WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub)
    Broadcasting of real-time updates to followers