Federalization is required in high-latency mobile networks for providing smallest response time.
16.04.2015, 15:18, "carlo von lynX" <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 07:53:34PM -0800, Tony Arcieri wrote: >> Looks interesting: >> >> http://matrix.org/ > > I was asked to compare Matrix to previous efforts such > as XMPP and PSYC1/PSYC2 and in intellectual exchange > with Matthew from Matrix came up with this list of > pros and cons: > > http://about.psyc.eu/Matrix > > As you've discussed already the state management features > of Matrix are very advanced, making XMPP look pale in > comparison. Also PSYC1 never needed to go that far, so > if the stuff Matrix says it is doing actually works, they > have already surpassed our work in this field. > > What I consider relevant to this mailing list concerning > Matrix is the way it sticks to the old server-based > federation model. I have collected some criticism about > federation in > > http://about.psyc.eu/Federation > > and dare to assert that Federation is by definition at > odds with Privacy, in particular metadata privacy. All > of these technologies should look at ways to shift the > power away from the large surveillance honeypots called > servers towards the many harder to infiltrate private > devices and home systems. > > Matthew stated that federation is necessary in order to > be backwards compatible to legacy 3rd party systems such > as XMPP, IRC, Google or Facebook. I highly doubt both > the idea that backwards compatibility is a goal worth > abandoning metadata privacy for and that a distributed > system using anonymous routing would not be able to run > a few commodity gateways to legacy infrastructure, maybe > reducing the quality of anonymity in the process - but > never as much as throwing it to the bin in the first place. > > What do you guys think? Is Federation really still worth the > attention of so many brilliant minds if it won't ever deliver > what humanity needs from the Internet? > > -- > E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using Tor. > torify telnet loupsycedyglgamf.onion DON'T SEND ME > irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX PRIVATE EMAIL > http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ OR FACEBOOGLE > _______________________________________________ > Messaging mailing list > [email protected] > https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
