On 10 August 2015 at 18:37, Dominik Renzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice compilation, Dave. > > As one of the guys from xmppresearch.org, I might add a bit from the > academic side. There is quite a body of literature available on XMPP > research (and - yes, we keep collecting!). We're currently working on a > survey paper on a collection of XMPP research from 2003 till today. I can't > reveal too much, but a little bit of overview allows me to wield the > academagic battle-axe at least for two myths. > > Myth Two: > > Although I don't know if the scientific use of XMPP extensions mirrors > practical deployment, I would assume that there are certain similarities. > In response to a request during this year's summit in Diegem, Belgium, my > dear colleague Daniel Schuster from TU Dresden created a tag cloud of the > XEPs in scientific use, extracted from 250 different papers: > http://www.xmppresearch.org/posts/xeps-used-in-xmpp-research/ > > That's awesome; I'll link to that in the Myth Two section. > Myth Three: > > There is quite some scientific evidence on the use of XMPP in > bandwidth-critical, mobile settings, especially in the last five years. > You find literature on mobile sensor networks, mobile apps, IoT, etc., > some of them applied in disaster scenarios with no or very impaired public > communication infrastructure. Bandwidth-efficiency is hardly ever mentioned > as a problem. > > Yes, I'll poke about and see how much of the use-cases I'm aware of can be talked about openly, since there's sectors using XMPP over low-bandwidth for mission-critical messaging that are really eye-opening - and I didn't even know about the disaster cases - links would be great. > Best, > Dominik > > > > > Am 10.08.2015 um 18:02 schrieb Dave Cridland: > >> I've noticed that a large well-funded group have been attending a number >> of >> conferences and making unfortunately ill-informed statements about XMPP, >> in >> favour of their own solution in a number of spaces in which we overlap. >> >> In conformity with Napoleon's suggestion that one should never attribute >> to >> malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence, I have >> tried >> to address these statements directly, but sadly while representatives of >> the organization were willing to agree they would correct their website, >> they have remained too incompetent to do so. >> >> This is terribly unfortunate, and so to help address this I knocked up >> some >> answers to specific "myths" on a Wiki page, intended (by me) as a draft >> blog post (but it could just as well stay on the Wiki, get reused as >> website content, or whatever). >> >> It's here: http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/index.php?title=Myths >> >> Suggestions and corrections would be very much welcome; feel free to >> either >> edit directly, or (possibly preferable) discuss in the XSF chatroom at >> [email protected] >> >> Thanks! >> >> Dave. >> >> >
