[jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

[Evgeniy Khramtsov]

30.08.2010 23:06, Remko Tronçon wrote:
> Hi Evgeniy,
>    

Hello :)

> IMO, the primary goal of the XSF (and any XMPP software project) is
> making XMPP users happy. Unable to implement/scale protocols means bad
> experiences, means unhappy users, so we *definitely* care about
> implementation feedback.
>    

Good to know :)

> Disco-ing clients all the time costs users a lot of money on mobile
> systems, and makes users very unhappy. PEP's "raison d'être" *is*
> avoiding all this unwanted traffic at signin.

I don't understand: if you are fighting with unwanted traffic, why do 
you refuse my suggestion about filtering unsupported stanzas on server 
using client's CAPS. Since we cache local user's CAPS, we can filter not 
only PEP, but, for example, unwanted iq:version, iq:time, chatstates, 
muc invitations, etc.

>   If it's impossible to
> implement PEP in a scalable way without sending unwanted traffic, then
> we should throw this protocol away, and start over with something that
> *does* work.

Everything is fine from my point of view, except of caching foreign 
clients data.

> But in the meantime, for the sake of the XMPP network,
> please don't deploy PEP for inter-server communication if this means
> costing everybody money without *any* means to avoid it.
>    

Well, in the first, we don't have a choice: users want PEP and we need 
to implement it somehow. In the second, as I said in previous posts, I 
don't think PEP consumes lots of *useless* s2s traffic.

-- 
Regards,
Evgeniy Khramtsov, ProcessOne.
xmpp:xram at jabber.ru.