[Standards-JIG] proto-JEP: Smart Presence Distribution

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu Jun 01 11:44:49 2006, Carlo v. Loesch wrote:
> | Why would we want to introduce a "framing capable syntax"? What 
> real | benefits would it provide over our manipulation of the to 
> and from 
> it allows for
> [x] unquoted and unparsed binary file transfers
> [x] routing and multicasting content without losing time parsing it
> [x] probably more
> 
> 
In general, introducing increased framing means that the protocol 
stream will be larger, post-compression, as far as I've found. 
Admittedly, this is just a very strong hunch backed up by a few 
examples.

You're correct in your assertion that framed data would mean clean 
binary transfers, but that isn't a goal of XMPP - anyone shipping 
binary data directly through XMPP is simply doing something 
inefficient. If you do want to ship large binary objects, it's more 
efficient to send them either via email, or send a URL via XMPP, and 
ship the data by a more suitable protocol.

The other assertion - that parsing it takes an increased amount of 
time - is debatable, I'd want to see figures on that before accepting 
it.

Dave.
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