[Adium-devl] [SPAM] Re: Bonjour Messaging Discussion

[Alan Humpherys]

Looks like we are headed for the best of both worlds where  
compatibility with the standard and iChat are one in the same...  In  
the meantime we should be able to detect the capabilities of the  
other client and respond accordingly.

This is good news.
Alan


> Colin, I couldn't have said it better myself, and I'm a hardcore  
> protocol geek. ;-)
>
> In the case of Bonjour presence / link-local messaging, I don't  
> think we have an either-or decision here. If you look at the  
> acknowledgements section of XEP-0174, you will see that I have  
> worked closely with the people who defined this technology in the  
> first place to get their feedback and input. They have been very  
> helpful in providing information about how this stuff works. So  
> this spec is really just documentation of existing practices, not  
> some pie-in-the-sky "standard" dreamed up by a committee somewhere  
> (the XSF is very developer-focused and I'm really just a glorified  
> documentation guy). That said, I don't know exactly what features  
> iChat 5 will support and even if I knew I wouldn't be able to tell  
> you, but I do know that I have a good relationship with the iChat  
> team and that they have continually expressed their commitment to  
> standards-compliance and good interoperability with the rest of the  
> XMPP network. So let's not assume that it's "interop with iChat" or  
> "interop with everyone else" as some boolean choice here...
>
> Peter

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