[jdev] Thoughts on Interplanetary Jabber System ?

[Ulrich Staudinger]

Tony Finch schrieb:

>On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Ulrich Staudinger wrote:
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>>i am just wondering if someone expenses thoughts on an interplanetary IM
>>system, similar to the interplanetary Mail system:
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>Isn't "instant" messaging fundamentally incompatible with 30 minute
>round-trip times?
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:-)

Fundamentally spoken, i think the message itself doesn't get old from A 
to B (it travels at almost lightspeed). And once arrived the message 
will be delivered immediately and instantaneously to it's target, 
contrary to Mail; Mail is stored in a mailbox by default. Presence is an 
interesting scenario, too. Of course the presence informations would be 
delayed by 5 minutes for my little venus express, but i could see if my 
service inside that planet probe is online or not ... I think XMPP is 
really interesting for it's XML nature. If only the tags weren't so 
long, these produce a massive overhead.


Cheers,
Ulrich

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