[Members] Google and XMPP federation

[Philipp Hancke]

Am 26.05.2013 01:19, schrieb Ralph Meijer:
> On 2013-05-25 20:44, Mike Taylor wrote:
>> [..]
>  >
>> The only definitive article i've seen to date is the one I read this
>> morning and, IMO, it's a hack piece.
>>
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039820/google-weak-xmpp-support-capabilities-led-us-to-proprietary-tech-in-hangouts.html
>>
>
> I wrote a extensive rebuttal on all of the points raised in this article
> (on TechHive):
>
> https://plus.google.com/116276248303121270590/posts/ggNwh9eLYWu

I just watched a whole hour of 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KMr8etxIbjY -- 
can someone else go through the rest of the show please?

There are some interesting statements:
In the conversation starting at 11:00 chee chew seems to say that xmpp 
is based on http. Am I getting that right? The arguments he's making 
sounds more like he means TCP... even though that doesn't make them more 
valid.



The conversation about presence starting at 28:45 is even more 
interesting. The key quotes here are that "in the mobile world the idea 
of presence is a bit more blurry" and "with the hangouts product you can 
send a message whether they're online or offline".
First the presence part. For me, this describes a very naive notion of 
presence, reducing it to online/offline. XMPP has a slightly more 
elaborate model, allowing you to specify what you're currently doing in 
your presence. For enterprise unified communications there are other 
factors that influence your presence like being on a phone call or 
having a meeting (i.e. calendar integration).

Now the delivery of offline messages... I think the notion that you can 
only write to people who are online comes from aol instant messenger, 
possibly from IRC. Again, this is not true for XMPP as a protocol and 
the only major xmpp implementation that did not implement offline 
message storage or allowed you to send messages to contacts who are not 
online was... gtalk.


I'm still struggling to the see the technical argument in "the model of 
xmpp did not work for us" given those... misinterpretations of how xmpp 
works.