Building upon the FeedTree distribution system, we foresee a potential for entirely new services based on RSS which cannot be accomplished today. By using single-writer logs [18] in combination with a distributed storage mechanism such as a DHT [22, 15, 9], we can record permanently every RSS item published, allowing a distributed archival store of micronews across the In- ternet. Clients of such a system would easily be able to find out what they “missed” if they had been offline for so long that old RSS items are no longer available in any conventional, static RSS feed. Another area for future work is anonymous RSS feeds involving an anonymizing peer-to-peer routing system,.
