[JDEV] The Important Things

[Ashvil]

> I found that we could use some kind of a gateway -
> people connect to one server ( for example jabbber.org ) autheticate -
> get a token/session id - and then continue with a server
> l1.l4.dddljfds.jabbber.org that are real jabber servers.
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Any ideas that can help in scalability are welcome. If we can use a pool of
cheap PCs to build a scalable jabber network, then even more valuable then
having One big Server with Gigs of memory.

This will require some changes in the Jabber protocol. The MSN protocol does
something like this, but takes this one step ahead by letting you connect to
any server in the pool, which then refers you to the right server that can
authenticate you. If you make logging in a two-step process, you can solve
this problem but that would mean changing all the Jabber clients and also
the S2S communication in the Jabber server.

Anyway, this is an area that the Jabber server developers are the best folks
to comment on.

Regards,
Ashvil