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## What is WebSub?
-On the 20th of October 2016, the W3C released a First Public Working
-Draft of (what was called at the time) PubSub, later renamed to
-WebSub.
+On the 24th of November 2016, the W3C released a Working Draft of
+WebSub, "an open, simple, web-scale and decentralized pubsub
+protocol".
See the specification of the W3C WebSub protocol at
- (and track its development at
-).
-**N.B.: These URLs will eventually have `websub` in place of `pubsub`.**
+ (and track its development at
+).
- [w3cspec]: https://www.w3.org/TR/pubsub/
+ [w3cspec]: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
## Quick Start
@@ -243,7 +242,7 @@ in the URL that the WebSocket was initially connected to.
At the time of writing, no official list of conformance criteria
exists; however, there is a draft list of Candidate Recommendation
-implementation criteria at .
+implementation criteria at .
## Codebase Layout