IBR is very useful. But many people expose it to the open world where it's open to abuse.
IMHO, IBR is very useful when you are using a service like xmpp-ftw and need a way to create new users. In this situation IBR is only exposed on localhost and the web-bits, to the outside world. S. On 2 April 2014 09:36, Tomasz Sterna <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2014-04-01, wto o godzinie 21:01 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre pisze: > > I suggest that we push this line of thinking to its logical conclusion > > and strongly consider deprecating and then obsoleting IBR. [...] > > 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, [...] > > We have this notion of obsoleting existing protocols without providing > alternatives. > People do not like this approach and I've been defending XMPP over the > years, but to this, I have no answer. > Hell... I don't like this approach. > > IMO the correct order is: > 1. Do we want to obsolete IBB or maybe fix its issues? > 2. If we want to obsolete, we need to design its replacement. > It's easy now, since we identified its deficiencies in 1. > 3. Propose replacement for IBB and test-drive it. > 4. Obsolete IBB. > > > -- > Tomasz Sterna @ http://abadcafe.pl/ @ http://www.xiaoka.com/ > > -- Simon Tennant | buddycloud.com | +49 17 8545 0880 | office hours: goo.gl/tQgxP
