> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rejhon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:38 PM > To: XMPP Standards > Cc: Stephen Pendleton > Subject: Re: [Standards] Review: XEP-xxxx: In-Band Real Time Text > > - Reliable out-of-band (for many of my use cases) requires becoming an > expert on additional protocols -- whether it be jingle, or relay > servers, or UPnP, or NAT tranversal technologies, or firewall > transversal technologies (my company blocks everything except port 80, > and I'd like browser-based real time text clients too). > - For programmers like me who's not used to programming at low level > (network layers), the high level XML based protocol is much, much, > much easier to implement than an RFC4103 based protocol.
Agreed about the complexity of traversal, but there is nothing precluding you from using XMPP in a direct connection. In fact I use XMPP for this for mesh networking projects. No matter how you design it looks interesting though!
