On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Matt Jankowski wrote: [Providing a list with public Jabber servers] > Along those same lines, it would be cool/useful to have a discovery method > for existing jabber entities to acquire this list from their server.
HTTP GET? :-) > It would be up to servers on the public network to keep track of > eachother by remembering who they've done s2s with Don't think this is good for many of the s2s servers may be not intended for public sign-on. Let's compare Jabber with email. It is certainly not necessary or of benefit to have a list containing "all SMTP/POP3 servers" although one may argue that everybody needs an email account. So for the meantime (until Jabber becomes as common as mail :-) I would argue that a "simple" server list is sufficient. > Rate-limiting might be useful, as that could easily get out of hand. ...and we get only a list of Jabber servers without any additional information which renders it practically useless. What servers offer SSL/transports/are available for public registration/... - this is information that matters and that can not be gathered automatically. And, as a last point, I don't think there's a *lack* of public Jabber servers now so simply going for quantity is not necessary. Regards _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
