I didn't top-post, I replied to my original note. I'm only subscribed to digests.
IQ notifications are spec'd to only work for present subscribers, which doesn't help me. It'd be great if they would work for offline subscribers. As for getting involved, how else would I begin to do that but by asking questions? Besides, I just suggested the outlines of a solution. (Which might well be redundant with written XEPs.) On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Liam <pub...@networkimprov.net> wrote: > Seems to me that a reliability extension can be quite simple... It needs an > ack mechanism, and a configurable retry/fail policy on the server. It's > sorta surprising the core protocols lack this, IMO... > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Liam <pub...@networkimprov.net> wrote: > >> This blog post cogently positions XMPP against MQ systems >> https://stpeter.im/index.php/2007/12/07/amqp-and-xmpp/ >> >> But now two years later, the pubsub spec makes no mention of reliable >> delivery to offline subscribers, and even ejabberd doesn't implement AMP, >> which could provide that. (Code's written, but integration appears to have >> been deferred indefinitely.) >> >> It is astonishingly easy to miss messages with a browser-based client. Um, >> have I chosen the wrong messaging technology for my app? >> >> >
