-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/6/13 5:13 PM, Tobias Markmann wrote: > Hi, > > We have been working on a new XEP proposal which aims to solve the > following fundermental problem: How to find a JID given some > personal information about the person who owns that JID. Jabber > users who've just created their accounts, need to populate their > roster with the people they are usually in contact with, with as > little manual process as possible.
Is this really a big problem? I haven't heard complaints about this in years. It definitely was a problem in the early days of Jabber technologies, which was why we used to have things like the Jabber User Directory (JUD) at the jabber.org service. That said, we might want to integrate better with WebFinger. The topic came up during discussion in the telephony devroom at FOSDEM on Sunday, and all of the panelists (from the main track talk on decentralized communication technologies) agreed that WebFinger provides a good single point of discovery for such information. See also http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0130.html > The proposal is similar to what the BlackBerry does with their PIN > or WhatsApp with phone numbers. However, our proposal's approach is > different because it is more decentralized and general. By making > it so, realiability is increased by not having a > single-point-of-failure and it also allows for a greater pool of > directories. Decentralization is good. :-) > On the other hand, in spite of its benefits, a decentralized > approach proves to be most challenging in terms of sercurity, > privacy, trust, database maintance and scability. Yes, those are always challenges with decentralized technologies. > We have written a rough draft[1] and we seek suggestions of how to > tackle those problems. > > This is highly experimental work, so nothing is set on stone yet. > We would like to encourage everyone to send us their suggestions > about how things should or shouldn't be done. > > Cheers, Jef & Tobi > > [1] http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Secure_Distributed_JID_Discovery > - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRE+atAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pMb0P/jWmogxknh+dykC+YqDgY/C1 BJRWRj3+VdjBq5Xux14+M1SL3SvAhNQEccVx1hiaNzG92zfF5TnM8+Nph6DmVq36 fhFktXS96xWxzg9t7EQCSKqFQ7CF4yIN7N5k6YwU1xIeMvkmjo3ZpFeDGn8dmSDH 0r69V958ZuqWf+bT78q46qkB6ThXZZ6isgYNXBWDkKkypH+CfI0sHrl1NRXPnisD lNKqmNe/2aikeEVColDUGhb841oLYBApOtbRNc1vJkpROwZBcoyw4nN9bJ8e9X0J eOIWuA3qdEEVR5jRtUPyeGbn/x3xlFnnaarJPkhb8Ydx19dX2c9tP+HgFCizrJ+q n54oY02dwrqCdG5u5QihHlQ2uxMsgzoYM7cMEVsSekd1OkI9A9W8RCXdU+CUvbP9 Swfa2AJUUjZUiDb6gPcymi6v0qEkg+DluXy1NQNHbzX7Cuobemj9P3PzU3pbpuwn JAU8rigIfzS2QWb0FYUXOsNhCk81BeAPuESGHw9pRTAXeM0y1PQwV8vyRfTgoWjU uJAG8Hy/U+NAgBwWc2kZ0+8sGUaepd8COdcanXO6eT9WGuwL3o5pJ6aNU2/u0RJt 0xa9VAhHnWWs8Ikw2IHYfJu8EgVeWQY3qRqC4DVoN5awFH92wWTef9vKK9/Xhhtv bldRbvQ8rPGKoqMZzfJC =kWS9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
