David Galbraith: "From a market perspective, surely it would be better if Atom worked around a core of RSS and if need be then the RSS 2.0 core should be amended to include necessary things like the encoding type of content."
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The Motivation page on the Atom Wiki is pretty clear about why we need to look beyond RSS. Tweaking RSS 2.0 will buy perhaps a year or so, and then we'll be back hitting the walls again. RSS 1.0 would give a lot more extensibility (and hence shelf life), but doesn't take into account the posting API(s). Time to look forwards.
