[JDEV] Peer to peer Jabber streams

[Dave Smith]

> 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.

Yes, p2p isn't a fundamental part of Jabber for a reason -- client
implementation simplicity. One of the original design goals of Jabber
was to make it super easy to create a basic client. Additionally, 
secruity was a concern as pre-existing IM systems hand out your IP
address left and right. Obviously, the secruity issue goes away in 
the restricted setting of an internal network. 

> > 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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