For anyone who may be interested, I've written an article describing my thoughts, from the perspective of a Drupal developer, about this announcement of the opening of the federation port at WaveSandBox at http://sites.google.com/site/federationprototypeserver/.
Ciao for now, Kipp On Nov 2, 1:18 pm, Dan Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just a little bit ago we opened the federation port for Google Wave's > developer instance, so we can all begin experimenting with federating waves > against WaveSandbox <http://wavesandbox.com/>.com <http://wavesandbox.com/>. > Since that is the developer preview instance, please keep in mind that it is > an experimental service, and it is likely that there will be unforeseen > glitches in the coming weeks. Please share your progress here in the > wave-protocol forum, so we can work through issues together. > > Over the next several weeks we plan to add some important features to this > service: > > - TLS for XMPP: > - The protocol itself specifies two distinct security mechanisms: > delta signing and XMPP over TLS. Delta signing is required to be able to > verify the authenticity of the source of the operations. TLS is an > additional layer of security to the XMPP protocol, but it can be > a bit hairy > to configure. In order to encourage prototyping, TLS is not enabled on > WaveSandbox.com, but it will become required in the coming > weeks. This gives > existing FedOne instances an opportunity to get signed certificates and > configure their XMPP servers properly. > - Reliable Delivery: > - For any communication mechanism it is important that there is a > contract for delivery of the message contents, and we are working on a > reliable delivery mechanism from WaveSandbox.com. > > With that said, to get started federating with WaveSandbox.com, you should > visit the wave-protocol project <http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/> and > review the installation > instructions<http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation>. > If you have previously installed and configured FedOne to talk to > other FedOne instances, you will need to upgrade to the latest revision > (revision 08b5eecb93) to properly interoperate with WaveSandbox.com. For > those of you building your own clients or servers, please take special care > to review the documentation that describes the > errata<http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/DifferencesFromSpecificat...> > between > the protocol specification and the current FedOne implementation between the > protocol specification and the current FedOne implementation, and > coincidentally, WaveSandbox.com. > > If you don't have a WaveSandbox.com account, you may request a developer > account here <https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignupfordev/>. We > hope to provision those accounts within a week or so. > > As you are developing, please keep in mind we welcome contributions to the > growing open source reference implementation; please check out this guide > on submitting open source > code<http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/SubmittingCode> > . > > On the specification front, the Google Wave Conversation Model draft > specification has been revised and updated to include the blip document > schema, which defines the representation of rich text necessary for proper > interoperation with WaveSandbox.com. That document is available > here:http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-specs/wave-conversation-model > > The updated specifications and FedOne code introduce new changes to the wave > model, but they aren't the last; we expect more changes to come as we > iterate with you on the implementation and learn from these early > experiments in federation. Once the specifications and reference code have > converged and become reasonably stable we will begin to federate > wave.google.com, until then we have a lot of work to do. Looking forward to > hearing your feedback. > > Cheers, > -Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
