A facet of RW30 is currently under poll: should rdf:about and <link>
have a hard connection. The current poll results are consistent with
what I've felt come through in the discussion: no.

I want to focus this solely on what is necessary to deliver 1.0, which
means I'd like to not try to find out what we "really" should be using
rdf:about for or what it means. I would also like to be able to
revisit this issue again after 1.0, because there are still strong
arguments for both sides (which I don't think the discussion has fully
played out and the current poll does not reflect).

Proposal:
For RDF+NS RSS 1.0, then, I'd like to propose for RW30 that we
remove the hard tie between rdf:about and link (uri) and replace it
with a soft tie. More specifically, as a brief summary of changes
to the spec, "rdf:about MUST be globally unique; an item's <link>
need not be unique; rdf:about SHOULD be a copy of <link> (<uri>)."

This proposal leaves open what rdf:about should mean to further
discussion, is clear to implementors that the two are not (yet, maybe
ever) aliases, and by starting out with a copy of <link> (<uri>) we
can revisit that discussion as well.

-- Ken