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.
-- Jonathan
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