Hi Peter,

Provisioning or re-provisioning (buy/sell devices) “accounts” for IoT and M2M 
is actually one of the biggest “problems” / issues. So I think, that rethinking 
this problem will be the the best solution.

-Just my 50 cent
/Steffen

On 02 Apr 2014, at 05:01, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Several folks have commented on in-band registration (IBR, XEP-0077) 
> recently, wondering aloud whether we really want to recommend it for things 
> like registering devices in IoT environments.
> 
> I agree with the concerns that people have expressed. I suggest that we push 
> this line of thinking to its logical conclusion and strongly consider 
> deprecating and then obsoleting IBR. Perhaps - perhaps! - IBR was appropriate 
> in 1999 when we were trying to encourage people to easily try out this new 
> technology called Jabber. Those days are long gone.
> 
> If we feel that we'd like to have some kind of method for account 
> provisioning over XMPP - and I'm not convinced that we do - then I feel that 
> we need to rethink the whole problem, not reuse something that is 
> fundamentally flawed.
> 
> Peter
> 

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