Re: Thinking about a new decentralized/serverless IM protocol

On 2004-12-14 19:28:37 UTC, Luke Schierer wrote:
> 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

I said "no centralized user registry". I don't know about rendezvous or
silc but jabber has centralized user registry in the server.

> > - no centralized servers
> 
> rendezvous, jabber and to a lesser extent silc (irc model for servers)

I said "no centralized servers". I don't know about rendezvous, but
jabber and silc have centralized servers.

> > - end-to-end cryptography & security
> 
> silc.

I already knew about silc but I have to take a closer look at it.

> > If you were to choose an IM protocol to base this new protocol, what
> > would be it?
> 
> i wouldn't reinvent the wheel. 

Me neither, I just need to know a good implementation of the "wheel" :-)

I have to take a closer look at rendezvous.

Thanks for the response!

Eduardo


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