On 16 January 2017 at 18:08, Evgeny Khramtsov <[email protected]> wrote: > Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:59:21 +0000 > Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's not what I said, I said that federation was an important >> feature. > > You have said exactly that: >> And if your business plan doesn't involve federation, why bother with >> the additional overhead and complexity? > > Which means it doesn't make sense to deploy XMPP if you don't need > federation. >
No, two distinct cases. I'm still being unclear, sorry. One was using XMPP as the basis of a service you *offer*. The other was using XMPP as the basis of a service you *use*. Use of XMPP generally makes sense, if you want to host your own (for security reasons or whatever). And that does happen - there's plenty of communities of autonomous organizations. Even if you don't want federation, deploying an XMPP server can make sense - the vast, vast majority of Openfire deployments don't federate. And I'm pretty comfortable in asserting there's more of these than any other server, though I lack the evidence. Building your own service, however, is different - because federation introduces complexities and overheads, it's an overhead that you're paying. And if you explicitly don't want to federate - and why would you, in order to run a walled-garden? - then it's a complexity that's not worth paying. Dave. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
