This list has been active for over a year, and there's been many good
discussions, though fewer results. Perhaps discussion lists aren't
ideal for building consensus, they transitory nature of ideas despite
the archives.

The Echo/Pie/Atom Wiki has the advantage of having a third place, the
document itself, around which discussion can take place, openly and
clearly. Though with a lot of work, and still unseen results (it's
only been a few months though). Much of its momentum was due to the
dedicated work of an individual head wiki gardner.

There are many unsolved and half-solved problems in aggregation
software. And at least there's no one place to find the consensus, or
pros and cons on each issue. Examples..

: auto-discovery formats
: methods for publishing blogrolls and subscription lists, and
interchanging them among aggregation tools
: aggregation subscription methods
: methods of passing "read articles" among multiple aggregators
: rpc api's for aggregators
: update frequency, and methods of update notification
: authentication
: standards for handling weblog comment aggregation

and many many more.

These issues definitely deserve there own space, not as a subset of
the Atom Wiki. Is a Wiki appropriate? Will people take part? Is there
someone to step in and devote time to herding the cats :)?

Mikel