[jdev] Bytestreams fallback mechanism

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Hello,


I'm working for Collabora Ltd. on the OLPC project. We developed tubes
[1] which is a Telepathy component that allows arbitrary applications to
communicate together through an existing IM infrastructure.

Tubes are currently implemented in Gabble (XMPP) and Salut (XMPP link
local). See [2] if you are interested about the XMPP protocol.
Stream tubes use stream initiation to establish their connections. For
now, only IBB is implemented in Gabble which is not very efficient. So
we'd like to add real p2p connections as OOB and, later, use Jingle
magic to perform NAT penetration.

In order to always use the "better" bytestream, we'd like to do
something like that:
a) Try normal OOB using a direct TCP connection
b) Try OOB with NAT penetration
c) Give up and use IBB


Does XMPP have a standardised way to do that?
I found this [3] proposal but it seems Spark specific.
Xep-0041: Reliable Entity Link could do the job too but is was
retracted.

Any other solution or should we define our own protocol to do that?


Thanks for your help.


G.


[1]
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.Tubes
[2] http://people.collabora.co.uk/~smcv/tubes.html
[3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig/10468

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