On 06/10/2013 06:45 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> Rate limiting will affect both XMPP in-band and OTR in-band the same. Only >> an >> out-of-band file transfer would get around that. So we'll need to find a way >> to deal with that gracefully regardless of whether its in-band XMPP or OTR. > > Why not provide a URI that defines the transport mechanism? If we are > now already discussing the limits of one kind of file transfer > mechanism, we're bound to need different ones over time. > > Providing a URI could also mean I can encrypt it and put it up on an ftp > server. > > Paul
I like that idea, so you'd have something like: XMPP-side-channel:// XMPP-in-band:// otr-in-band:// https:// ftp:// sftp:// etc. .hc _______________________________________________ OTR-dev mailing list OTR-dev@lists.cypherpunks.ca http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/mailman/listinfo/otr-dev
