Re: Federation protocols

Simon Tennant wrote:
> On 1 June 2013 20:20, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com 
> <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I think XMPP is great as part of an overall solution in the FSW. 
>     And I'm keen that XMPP systems should be able to communicate with
>     other systems.  The JID xmpp:user@host in my view is an excellent
>     choice of identifer, I can add it to may roster, and there's a
>     well defined way to send the messages.
>
>     But we need solutions in the HTTP space as well. Facebook for
>     example have decent solutions in HTTP, email AND XMPP.  It's just
>     a pity it's centralized and proprietary.
>
>
> XMPP: very good at federation and identity / not very good at display 
> and client apps
> HTTP: no native federation and identity / excellent at display and 
> client apps
>
> So (and this is how we built buddycloud), use HTTP to get that 
> information from your home domain via an API, and use XMPP to 
> transport and share between domains.

Exactly!


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