Re: XMPP Compatibility

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

Eric,

it's been fun watching you and Jon reconstruct the five years of arguments 
behind the IMPP strategy (transport/content split, end-to-end security, 
consistent semantics across systems) in a few short messages.

You've certainly touched on many of the points that have made me say that 
Marshall Rose's "let them fly independently" argument is wrong, and that we 
do need messaging systems that don't need content-transforming gateways.

But in the final analysis, discussing this in the IESG and IAB won't carry 
the day; in the end this argument has to be carried to the XMPP list.

Have you been there with it?

           Harald