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http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/interop /psa -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Interop] online testing environment Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:19:01 -0700 From: Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: XMPP Interop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the 1st XMPP interop event last July, we talked about building an online environment for ongoing testing of XMPP-based software. I think it's time to start making that a reality, especially since I mention it at http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/roadmap.shtml :-) Here's what I think the next steps are: 1. Define an agreement that members of the online testing system will sign and adhere to. This will involve things like non-disclosure of bugs found, use of the system only for protocol compliance testing (not for scalability testing or whatever), etc. I will work up a draft of this soon. 2. Define who may join. I see this being limited to developers (or QA testers) of XMPP-based software. No marketing people. No customers. Etc. 3. Define how it will work. I see two aspects: a. Server instances will be hosted by the relevant project or company and the XSF will simply point DNS at the IPs provided. So let's say that the ejabberd team participates -- at the XSF we will point something like ejabberd.interop.xmpp.org at an IP address that the ejabberd team tells us about, and the ejabberd team will run that server on their own hardware. Nothing will be hosted at the XSF infrastructure unless that's absolutely necessary. b. Client developers (and for that matter server developers) will register at a website like https://interop.xmpp.org/ (no, that doesn't exist yet). They will choose a preferred username to be set up at each server instance. That way a given developer on, say, the Psi project will be able to log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on. We'll need to figure out some algorithm for password creation. 4. Make it secure. All connections (c2s and s2s) will be protected via TLS. To make that easier, the XSF will issue certificates (both domain and, in the future, end-user) through its intermediate certification authority. Only authorized users (registered as above) will be allowed to use the system. No in-band registration. Etc. Anything else? Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre XMPP Standards Foundation http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml -- Peter Saint-Andre XMPP Standards Foundation http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml
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