[JDEV] IETF, Jabber, etc..

[Jeremie]

> The guise system is an anti-spam, unified account, and presense transport.
> [snip]
> what I envision my guise transport to be used for.

Wow!  Cool stuff, and exactly one of the cool things I've always seen as
being built ontop of Jabber!!

> Ahmen. Jabbertransport is only for JABBER protocol IM. We have to remember
> that the transports are not only transient but also two-way. You hear
> "transport" and most people think "that's how we send data to other
> networks." What I see the transport system _really_ being used for is to
> support hooks to various secondary abstraction protocols. (GSM/SMS, a
> low-bandwidth pager system, even a web-based jabber system.)

Absolutely yes!  Transports aren't just a bridge to another IM network,
they are a way to bridge to ANY network, an "abstraction" layer :)

Jer