Setting aside my smug satisfaction of rubbing it into the faces of jerks that just abandon their teammates, kiting isn't what I had in mind. When I tank in other games, it's from a range. I have an elementalist mage tank in GW2 that works fantastic, but I use a scepter, not the daggers.
My focus on tanking as an archer would be purely from a survival standpoint. Since there's no melee penalty for ranged classes, I guess my preference of being able to hit any enemy from anywhere and selectively pick them off or draw them in just lends itself more to my style. I don't mind if they get close, just that I can dictate when. It really just comes down to the enemies in each different game though.