[JDEV] The Important Things

[Al Sutton]

Jer has said the capability is pretty much there, so I think the next
thing is try to put together a proof of concept. My C is rusty and my
day job is hectic, so I'm unlikley to be able to do anything for a
while, so if you want to get stuck in feel free.

Al.

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 22:45, Tim Ferguson wrote:
> I really, really like this idea, although I would not consider myself an
> expert yet I am willing to help out/move it along in this arena.
> 
> Tim Ferguson
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of Al
> Sutton
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:00 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] The Important Things
> 
> Why not add authentication and message relaying to the S2S protocol.
> 
> This would give four advantages;
> 
> 1. Any user could log into any machine and the server would relay the
> authentication request to the relevant machine to handle authentication.
> 
> 2. The messages for that user would be relayed to the server they are
> logged in to and then forwarded on to them.
> 
> 3. Clusters or farms could be constructed to server a a single jabber
> community and the load shared between them.
> 
> 4. This would only involve a change to the S2S protol and servers
> supporting it (of which there are few), and would leave the C2S protocol
> unchanged and thus not require any client changes.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Al.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 15:50, Ashvil wrote:
> > > 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.
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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
> >
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