From kde-core-devel  Sat Aug 03 15:44:44 2002
From: Tim Jansen <tim () tjansen ! de>
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:44:44 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE Jabber Library
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=102844623515738

On Saturday 03 August 2002 17:00, Neil Stevens wrote:
> Jabber is actually one of the *least* centralized messaging systems out
> there.  Jabber is like email, while other systems attempt to lock you in
> to some proprietary server.  With Jabber, you actually have the

But Jabber requires a server. If you have two laptops with wireless LAN in an 
ad-hoc network (without internet or a server), you can not make a connection 
from system A to system B to, for example, send a file or play a game. So if 
you would use Jabber/XMPP as the infrastructure for a network game, all 
players need to be connected to the internet, even if they are in the same 
LAN.

SIMPLE is an example of a protocol that can also work without a server. This 
is why I would like to have an API that's flexible enough that SIMPLE support 
can be added later (which I would really like to do, but SIMPLE is no fun as 
long as we dont have a media framework).

bye...