In perl.modules, you wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:24:09AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>
>>[Disclaimer: I am not a PAUSE admin. Feel free to ignore this message.]
>
>I think it's important to clear up misunderstandings, so I'm
>not going to ignore it :-)
>
>> Shouldn't this belong in the Net:: namespace, alongside such modules as
>> Net::AOLIM, Net::AIM, Net::ICQ, and Net::IRC?
>
>Not really. Jabber is not just an IM or chat system. Jabber is
>a development architecture and platform for building distributed
>services, just as e.g. Apache is a development architecture and
>platform for building services and so on. Many of the developments
>I and other people are doing with Jabber have nothing to do with
>Instant Messaging. Jabber doesn't really belong in this area.
In this case, I think DJ is right. I know I'm usually
anti-toplevel-namespace, but Jabber *is* a broad application with wide
recognition, and I don't think it's wrong in this case.
K.
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