[Feeds] Re: Article on 'What RSS Needs'

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

I suspect that much of the work that needs to happen isn't in an IETF Working Group, but is more grass-roots. We can use this list to gather implementers together and start talking about how to coordinate, for example.

Because things like PPM and OHTTP already exist, 90% of the effort of meeting the 'who read what' use case is in getting the will together to do it -- feed readers need to add the facility, and _someone_ needs to operate the arms-length trusted intermediaries that provide the privacy properties we're looking for. 

Finding a funding model for those is the real challenge; while it might conceivably work for subscription-based feed readers, it's not going to be workable for others without some help. We may have to get creative; there is more money floating around for good public infrastructure, but I'm not sure those folks would go for this sort of thing.

Maybe a reasonable next step there would be to write an explainer that put the case for it both to implementers and potential funders.

Cheers,


> On 26 Aug 2024, at 6:19 AM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On 25 Aug 2024, at 9:09, Tim Bray wrote:
> 
>> Good piece. My instinct is that facilitating feedback about “who read
>> what” would be maybe the biggest shot in the arm for the feed ecosystem?
> 
> +1 to this, and maybe a +0.5 to Mike's "identity" (useful; rathole).
> 
> Do we need to get the band back together again? Tim and I remember how to chair...
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
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