[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]
Michael Brown
michael at aurora.gen.nz
Sat Jun 21 11:32:05 CDT 2003
Agreed, no single point of failure/control.
Either some sort of P2P style searching method, or leave it up to the
portals, search engine sites to index/search/cache all the different JUD's.
Michael.
----- Original Message -----
> > Has anyone thought about creating a centralized user directory? There
> > could be an optional s2s component for the server implementations, and
> > perhaps a direct c2s protocol that clients could implement, as well.
> >
> > If such a project were started, it would be a good idea to fold presence
> > into it as well.
>
> Sounds like you'd prefer a centralized server for all of Jabber? Esp. once
> you start talking about folding presence into a centralized server... :)
>
> In all seriousness, the solution to this problem _must_ embrace the fact
> that Jabber is decentralized. Given the difficulty with creating
> decentralized datastores, my guess would be that we will have to adapt
> some of the search protocols currently used on p2p networks and create a
> federation of JUDs that cross-search each other. It wouldn't be perfect,
> but it's better than what we have.
>
> My $0.02.
>
> Diz
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