LRN typeth: | PSYC is out of scope of "IRC-to-MUC component" project. The idea behind | the project, as i understand it, is that xmpp protocol is superior to | IRC, and that it would be good to have a bridge back to IRC from xmpp
Well, that is an incorrect statement. IRC is stupid at some things, XMPP is stupid at some other things. When it comes to scalability for large groupchats, IRC is clearly superior thanks to its simple but effective multicast distribution tree. Having MUC gateways on each IRC server makes an IRCnet a backbone for a distributed MUC. I have seen IRC channels working fine with 3000 people in it (#wtc on 2001-09-11 for example). I have seen 10000 people on a PSYC multicast channel (Webchat event with German rock band "Die Ärzte"). I never saw a MUC anywhere close in size. The reason we publically announced the MTV EMA chats accessible by MUC protocol was because we already had the PSYC multicast backbone in place for distributed MUC. So MUC is an access interface just like an HTTP or Flash webchat. It is pointless wanting to declare any of XMPP, IRC or PSYC legacy or superceded or something. As long as they do certain things better than their counterparts, they will all stay. IRC and Jabber will even stay, should they be technically superceded. Since these are all open source technologies, there is totally no reason not to use all of them and make them interoperate. psyced is good at building bridges between them, as it understands the requirements of all sides fully. psyced has ten years of experience in practice - rewriting this knowledge into a new piece of code, all the tricky details of each protocol and such, is a daring task to undertake. | server (from MUC room exactly) for backward compatibility. And it is | proposed to do so by making a component for xmpp server. "Component" | means that this project is generally simpler/smaller than the whole Yes "component" means it cannot offer all the advantages of federation to the IRC users. It is a more limited and one-way approach, but why restrict yourself artificially? The project description is just a suggestion what could be useful - it didn't take into account, that something even more useful and powerful has already been implemented. Meow.
