That's great to hear. Thanks Justin. Jesse
Justin Uberti wrote:
Thanks for the technical compliments. Regarding the issues you mention with Google Apps Team Edition, we recognize the concerns here. The SRV check is less than perfect, so we are disabling Talk for new Team Edition domains until we can implement a solution that doesn't cause problems for XMPP federation.--justinOn Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Jesse Thompson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Dave Cridland wrote: On Tue Feb 24 19:50:32 2009, Brian Cully wrote: This is whack. As an alternative, how about you don't host the domain at all until you see an SRV pointing to google's servers? It's just not good enough to allow anyone out there to hijack service just as long as they get to it first. If someone points the SRV record, that's a good sign that someone with real authority actually wants to use your services. Don't be ridiculous. I mean, anyone would think you meant that the DNS was more authoritative than Google. hehe. If Google is the new DNS, then I wonder if "google bombs" can be used to hijack other domains. :-) Seriously though, Google Apps already has a domain authorization process that they just aren't using for Talk. No need to use SRV records. Stepping back, I'm sure that the quality of the xmpp service that Google Talk runs is great. Give the technical guys credit. That said, Google's domain management aggressiveness is doing the Google Talk team a disservice by undermining Google's trustworthiness. We actually considered using Google Talk for part of our IM solution, but ultimately decided that privacy and local control was too important. Google would probably get more business if they addressed those issues directly. Instead, they are attempting to extort domains into signing up, which only proves that we made the right decision in the first place. Jesse
-- Jesse Thompson Division of Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Email/IM: [email protected]
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