On Jan 9, 2012, at 09:06, Wayne Franklin wrote:

> Matthew,
> 
> Sorry to hear that you didn't see the advantages to our approach.  We respect 
> the decision of the council and will provide feedback to XEP-0289.  Does this 
> mean that the other DMUC specs are out of the running?
> 

I personally don't have a comment regarding the other DMUC specs right now.

> The biggest problem with XEP-0289 is that it does not seem to address the 
> requirement for having the room be able to live on if the S2S link is 
> disconnected.  Our customer would like a 100 user chat room with 50 users on 
> one login server and 50 users on another login server to be able to continue 
> on as two 50 person chat rooms if the S2S link goes down (which is common for 
> their network).
> 
> Additionally, it seems as if the user needs to know that they want to connect 
> to a new mirror service rather than the actual chat room.  This seems as if 
> it will be a training issue for our users.
> 
> Unless I mis-understand, it seems as if the client will need to know that it 
> is talking to this new mirror service (and not a real MUC room) so that it 
> can construct this escaped JID.  Personally, I would rather make a change at 
> the server that did not require the client to create a new kind of JID.
> 
> As I said, we will respect the decision of the council and provide feedback 
> to XEP-0289, but if we can't satisfy the requirement for continued operation 
> while S2S is down, we may have to go our own way.  
> 

XEP-0289 is still EXPERIMENTAL, and so could (in theory) be influenced by such 
criteria.  I would strongly recommend you work with the author(s) of XEP-0289 
to see if an agreement or compromise can be reached.


- m&m
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