[Standards] Council on Stanza Repeaters without Multicast

[Pedro Melo]

On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Alexander Gnauck wrote:
> Pedro Melo schrieb:
>> Yes, that was not the point of this, it was only to show that this  
>> problem is important now, and not "when we have 100k subscribers  
>> in the future". The future is here now.
>
> Thank Pedro for pointing this out. I was looking at the pubsub  
> nodes on jabber.org which is one of the biggest servers on the  
> network. And I can count the current nodes with my 10 fingers ;-)

And I agree that pubsub is still a niche technology also. You don't  
see many clients with direct support for subscribing pubsub nodes.  
You are starting to see PEP support but not PubSub.

But I think that you'll see a lot of PubSub with custom "news-ticker"- 
style clients real-soon-now ;)

Best regards,
-- 
Pedro Melo
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