[JDEV] Peer to peer Jabber streams

[Michael Wilson]

Sunir Shah wrote:
> 
>> Well, most of ICQ is peer-to-peer, whereas with Jabber
>> everything goes through the server.
> 
> I think a lot of people, including myself, are thinking about
> a peer to peer Jabber protocol. Who else is interested? I'm
> aware others are working on this, though I haven't spoken with
> them yet.

I'm personally interested in peer-to-peer messaging, but I
was under impression that the client-server model was one of
the fundemental premises of Jabber. The reasons for using peer
to peer (low lag, simplicity) are usually also reasons not to
use a heavyweight protocol like Jabber.

> Doing this with one peer to another peer is easy. Doing this
> for something like groupchat would be less easy. But that's
> absolutely critical as well.

It's not too hard; we've done this in a trial project. What's
really interesting is multicast groupchat, but that's not
usually practical for general internet use.

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