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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