[jadmin] trusted federation

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Neil Stevens wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> I have posted some thoughts on upgrading the Jabber network to 
>> encrypted-only s2s here:
>>
>> https://stpeter.im/?p=2136
>>
>> Flames are welcome. :)
> 
> The key effect of this would be to fragment the network. It'll be just 
> like email, with some people choosing to plug their ears and ignore a 
> lot of people.  It seems to me that would be to make xmpp a whole lot 
> less useful as a public communications network.
> 
> Now if you *want* XMPP to devolve into a set of mutually-incommunicative 
> cliques, that's fine, but I don't see the point in that.  It'll just 
> drive people toward AIM or something.

We heard the same arguments in October 2000 when we started enforcing 
dialback.

Is is acceptable that we are sending communications in the clear over 
s2s links?

Would our network be even larger if we enforced s2s encryption, since 
big XMPP deployments that are not currently federated would join the 
network?

I ask the questions. I don't say I have all the answers yet.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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