On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 14:51, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2. Compression makes multicast structures unnecessary. > > It does? A lot of people are skeptical about the argument "oh don't > worry about how verbose this is, compression will solve the problem".
Maybe that's true from a C2S bandwidth consumption point of view, but from a server routing mechanism perspective, it makes sense, if not mandatory for scalability. I wouldn't be completely sure about that. >> 4. This indeed is the worst of IRC brought to XMPP. > > Nice! What's needed to bring the *best* of IRC to XMPP? At least, by reproducing netsplits, the folks over there would feel confortable like at home. Is this what we need to bring their strength and support to an open federated network? Or else, ther's also the Poezio XMPP client, a console-based software that completely mimics the IRC-styme anonymosity and channels (no one-to-one chat, no presence, no roster, etc.): http://codingteam.net/project/poezio -- Nicolas Vérité - ProcessOne http://process-one.net Mobile: +33 6 20 88 63 04
