The general consensus was that XMPP had to much overhead to be practical in anything theory than highly connected environments for lively collaboration. As bandwidth trails off, and/or you don't have persistent TCP connections (I.e. Mobile devices). XMPP was killing the ability for lively collaboration.
On 6/12/13 3:02 PM, "Dave" <w...@glark.co.uk> wrote: >On 12/06/13 14:48, Yuri Z wrote: >> But without XMPP you would need to define your own discovery protocol. > >Yes. And implement alternatives for a couple of other bits such as >stream encryption, and anti-spoofing (such as dialback). > >Nothing particularly tricky, although personally I don't think it's >worthwhile. There's a lot of XMPP specs and implementations that we >don't use, and our use of XMPP might be unusual, but I don't think it's >unreasonable. > > >Dave