What RSS Needs - Mark Nottingham

To readers of my blog, it's no surprise, I like RSS. In this post, Mark Nottingham describes what RSS lacks to thrive on today's web this, includes the ability for publishers to be able to track readership, control/ensure readability in various readers, introduce methods of authenticating feeds, and more. Mark has also set up an IETF mailing list to discuss this further. This was discovered through Evan.