Re: [xmpp] Consensus Call on Adoption of POSH

[Dave Cridland <[e-mail]>]

On 6 Jan 2014 22:07, "Ben Campbell" <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> (as chair)
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> Hi,
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> The XMPP working group has a chartered work item for enabling
multi-domain hosting and server connection sharing.
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> Matt has been working on POSH for a while now, as an enabler for that
work. POSH is not currently expected to get its own working group, and no
other working group is chartered for that work. Several people have
proposed that, while POSH may have general applicability, XMPP is the group
that needs it, and therefore XMPP should adopt it. It is further proposed
that, we would try to keep it reasonably general, but would focus on XMPP
related requirements.
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> Should we adopt https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-miller-posh/ as a
working group item in support of the aforementioned chartered work? Keep in
mind that acceptance does not mean the work group thinks the draft is
absolutely correct or complete. It merely means that we think that the
draft is a good start towards the milestone.
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> Please send your opinions to the XMPP working group by Jan 20.

Late comment, sorry, but I consider this a slam-dunk adoption personally. I
think something like this is inevitable, and this is a viable idea from the
outset.

(Joe spurred me into replying at the XMPP Summit).

Dave.