Q: The Tent.io team has put a lot of thought into getting the protocol for a distributed "you own your data" publishing platform right. Have you considered their approach or integrated any ideas from their protocol?
A: Yes, we're focused on extending RSS to support self-signing/encryption part on the client-side, but on the server-side we're specifying a way for http servers to relay RSS entries.
You'll note we're a bit vague on the second part because we've not yet determined whether to go with ostatus or tent or a least common denominator of those and other solutions. Note that none of those speak to PKI (as far as I've seen), and we're keen on using RSS as the transport format just so everything interops with all the RSS piping and code already out there. But we'll have time to focus on that when/if this funding closes.
Now I'm checking to see if I even answered your question -- ok, yes, we're definitely considering both the protocol and the ideas and implementation behind it.
Thanks for your interest,