The short answer is yes, both from Novell Pulse and me personally. I believe that federation is one feature that was truly going to liberate the data, making it available cross-boundaries. It's the reason why email succeeded, and it would enabled true collaboration.
My concern is that WFP is tightly coupled with OT, and OT is complex. It is no small feat (trust me I know from experience) in taking existing editors and infrastructure, and replacing it with OT-enabled infrastructure in an existing product. And translating between "normal" (text/xml/etc.) content and real-time OT content leads to problems. So convincing vendors to make this leap is going to be difficult. One thing that no one has addressed on this list is that by continuing WFP you also need to continue OT and the JS editor. If you don't have a strong fully-featured non-buggy editor that people/companies can use without developing themselves, OT won't be continued or used. Without OT, the WFP protocol breaks down. It's all a mini-ecosystem. I wonder whether a slightly different protocol that would allow for the federation of existing non-real-time content as well as real-time content would be received better by the community. One that avoided the need for significant code changes, and one that would allow services to federate any type of content. Ian Roughley Pulse Platform Architect. On 08/05/2010 08:11 PM, James Purser wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Thanks for the update from Novell. > > Given that one of the features that Pulse was pimping was the ability > to conduct federated conversations, do you think Novell would be > interested in continuing to be involved in developing the Federation > protocol? > > I know you probably can't answer right away, I'm just trying to get a > feel for who, corporately would be interested in furthering the wave > tech. > > James > -- 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.
