Re: Thinking about a new decentralized/serverless IM protocol

> > You know, this is beginning to sound somewhat like IRC.  IRC uses a very 
> > simple, text-based protocol, plus a SSL layer frequently.  You should 
> > have a look at the IRC protocol if you haven't, it's very slick.
> 
> IRC needs somewhat centralized servers, has strong centralized user
> registry and has not end-to-end security.

irc has _nearly non-existant_ centralized user registery. it ensures one 
instance of each nick per network at any given time, but does not, by 
spec, ensure that each nick maps to one user. extentions such as 
nickserv add this mapping, but still not strongly. depending on the 
implementation, you can use a "registered" nick either for a short time, 
or infinitally, provided you do not need the benfits that being 
identified confers on some networks.

this differs somewhat from silc where nicks can be duplicated on the 
network, and public keys are used to differentiate between duplicate 
instances. 

luke


> 
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> Eduardo
> 
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