Re: [plasma] why not web portal mail?

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Tue, 12 April 2011 19:31 UTC

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If we consider the Word, Excel and Diplomatic cables examples, the data is
static and to be controlled under a policy regardless of what channels it
might be transferred or transmitted through.

The protocol requirement here in my view is to enable applications to
determine how to apply the security policy identified as X to the data
object Y.


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Trevor Freeman <
trevorf@exchange.microsoft.com> wrote:

> If you consider XMPP case it is easier because there is no expectation of
> data persistence. It's a synchronous protocol where all parties are online
> together exchanging information and that information is not persisted one
> the session is ended.
>
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> From: plasma-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:plasma-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Leif Johansson
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> On 04/06/2011 09:33 PM, Trevor Freeman wrote:
> > Stephen Farrell asked why not use Web portal mail? Why do we need to
> develop plasma?
>
> Maybe that question is easier to answer if we consider plasma for XMPP and
> not just for email. There are important differences between XMPP and email
> that make it much more challenging to build web-only versions of the XMPP.
>
>        Cheers Leif
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