[jdev] Re: Zeroconf and some thoughts..

Trejkaz trejkaz at trypticon.org
Mon May 2 22:16:38 CDT 2005


Quoting Hal Rottenberg <halr9000 at gmail.com>:
> I think it would be interesting to just have a best practices JEP that
> would explain how a Jabber /client/ could implement Zeroconf IM or
> server discovery.  We're not talking about changing the XMPP protocol
> at all.

That's exactly right.  The RFC specifically states that the client-server TCP
architecture is merely the history to date.  We now have an HTTP binding as
well, so there are already two ways to talk XMPP.  Why not have a third?

I wonder if our friends over at Apple would like to take some time out 
of their
schedule to write up the JEP to describe what _they_ did. ;-)

TX


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