On 14-Oct-08, at 4:36 AM, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
Am 14.10.2008 um 00:11 schrieb Dave Cridland:
Yes, because sending large binary attachments would be so much
easier then.
If both are online at the same time, it is. And saves traffic. For
everyone - client and server.
And think of the joy of how this would interface with the massive
deployment of perfectly functioning SMTP servers. It'd be so easy
to say "Look, throw away your binary-capable fault-tolerant
network, and replace it with our non-equivalent XML-based system,
and will choke if a server is unavailable for more than a minute!".
That's why we need to queue messages if a s2s connection is down.
I've been proposing that for ages already. But XEP-0198 is a step in
the right way here.
You will need to drop the I in IM then ;-) I want to know then the
other server is down, please don't queue and delay the message.
Instead of re-implementing email, why not improve the integration
between email and IM?
ck
