>Dnia 2012-10-13, sob o godzinie 22:37 +1100, James Wilson pisze: >> Just thought of this: if you use an 'auto-config' type setting >> perhaps we could take a 'Bonjour' like route in that each server >>broadcasts within its local IP range / subnet for other XMPP servers >> and makes a live, real time list of available instances. > >Cool idea. > >Along these lines, I was also thinking some time ago about putting all >router instances on RFC 3259 [1] Mbus wire [2]. >This would greatly simplify binding and routing. > >[1] http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3259.txt >[2] http://www.mbus.org/ > > >-- >Tomasz Sterna >Instant Messaging Consultant : Open Source Developer >http://tomasz.sterna.tv/ http://www.xiaoka.com/portfolio
mbus looks interesting but potentially brittle. The use of reliable messaging is quite interesting though. It could give you the ability for a platform neutral way to do service discovery. If you used something like Zeroconf you would have to write your own implementation of it i suspect so you could continue to support all the platforms you do, unless you use the resident tools like avahi for linux - BSD, Bonjour for mac, windows is lacking in this and uses uPNP. You could also look at using SLP, its a bit neglected though. Interesting thread. paul
