13 Oct
2025
13 Oct
'25
1:11 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 at 20:52, <marc.blanchet(a)viagenie.ca> wrote:
thanks Peter. interplanetary means: long delays and
disruptions. Earth to
Mars one way delay = 4-22 minutes. So a messaging/protocol should not be
"interactive" by having all kind of updates which are not real messages.
Moreover, the transport has to be compatible. TCP won't work with this use
case, so we are using a space profiled QUIC. So we would need XMPP over
QUIC, which AFAIK is not active.
Possibly worth noting that XMPP already operates (quite nicely, even) over
comparatively high delay networks in various non-internet settings; it
might be very useful to look into this and improve it further based on this
work. After all, if we can operate better on 4-22 minute delays, then
operating over 30s latencies will be improved, too.
Dave.