Some servers on the public jabber network throttle high-bandwidth connections. Since you'd probably not be using public servers this would not be a problem. Also note that the base64 encoding used in this spec increases the payload size by one third.Not using public servers is ok. However, base64 means not only that the message is longer, but also that is has to be transformed from binary to base64. No way around that? No binary data in XMPP?
Martin
