Re: Thinking about a new decentralized/serverless IM protocol

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:19:59PM +0000, Eduardo Pérez wrote:
> I'm thinking about a new decentralized/serverless IM protocol but
> I don't want to reinvent the wheel so I'd like to base it on some
> already working IM protocol.
> 
> The main goal of the protocol would be:
> - no centralized user registry

rendezvous, jabber or silc

> - no centralized servers

rendezvous, jabber and to a lesser extent silc (irc model for servers)

> - end-to-end cryptography & security

silc.

> 
> If you were to choose an IM protocol to base this new protocol, what
> would be it?

i wouldn't reinvent the wheel. 

> 
> Is there some IM protocols comparison where I can find some information
> about problems of the current protocols to avoid them?
> (A comparison of all the features of the protocols would be great!)

not that I know of.

> 
> Since the protocol is serverless I'll need status to be polled from
> every user (instead saving the status and having each buddy poll the
> server)
> What protocols are the most serverless?

rendezvous

> 
> I'm mainly asking for things to avoid and things to reuse.
> 
> If anyone knows references to some not centralized IM protocol it
> would be appreciated.

rendezvous.

> (I already saw http://instantp2p.jxta.org/ but that still needs a
> centralized user registry and my protocol won't need that)
> 
> Eduardo

luke


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