Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-23 Thread Peter Schwindt
Am 22.05.13 21:11, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: >> Well, xmpp has moved alot since 2005. caps, pubsub, pep, carbons, >> s2s-tls, compression, jingle... gtalk hasn't. So breaking up was a >> reasonable thing to do. > > There's a song in there somewhere. ;-) "50 ways to leave your lover"? ;-)

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Jesse Thompson
On 5/22/2013 10:02 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/22/13 8:52 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: Google failed to note the correlation of the drop in federated XMPP connections with the fact that Google Apps (which internally federates its hosted domains)

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/22/13 1:09 PM, Philipp Hancke wrote: > Am 22.05.2013 20:30, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: >>> So the protocol isn't as rich as they want... guess they haven't >>> understood the "x" part in xmpp. >> >> Well, I see no reason for us to act the jilted lover. :-) >> We had an on-and-off affair (2005-

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Philipp Hancke
Am 22.05.2013 20:30, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: So the protocol isn't as rich as they want... guess they haven't understood the "x" part in xmpp. Well, I see no reason for us to act the jilted lover. :-) We had an on-and-off affair (2005-2013) but XMPP predated Google Talk and now we start the

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/22/13 12:27 PM, Philipp Hancke wrote: > Am 22.05.2013 18:40, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: >> I think it was a bit over-the-top for Chee Chew to claim that >> the "majority" of the server-to-server connectivity to the Google >> Talk service was estab

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Philipp Hancke
Am 22.05.2013 18:40, schrieb Peter Saint-Andre: I think it was a bit over-the-top for Chee Chew to claim that the "majority" of the server-to-server connectivity to the Google Talk service was established by "organizations or individuals looking to bombard Google Talk users with chat spam". htt

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Kim Alvefur
On 2013-05-22 19:54, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: > >> On 2013-05-22 18:22, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: >>> PS: I am wondering whether the claimed chat spam problems mentioned in >> the press articles are actually true? >> >> It matches what was said bef

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Dieter Lunn
Google is using XMPP in another way as well. Their new gcm service for android apps uses XMPP behind the scenes. Although not fully. Basically they use it to establish a persistent connection then wrap json in their own gcm tag. On May 22, 2013 12:54 PM, "Dave Cridland" wrote: > > > > On Wed, May

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: > On 2013-05-22 18:22, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > > PS: I am wondering whether the claimed chat spam problems mentioned in > the press articles are actually true? > > It matches what was said before, search this list for "spammy invites". > > I'

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Olle E. Johansson
22 maj 2013 kl. 18:40 skrev Peter Saint-Andre : > In any case, I say let's continue to focus on improving XMPP. When > people get sick of all these silos again, as I expect they will, we'll > be ready. In the Stockholm Internet Forum today, it was highlighted that almost all social media today o

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Nigel Kukard
On 05/22/2013 04:47 PM, michael p wrote: I dont think it matters if they were true or not- Google and every other walled garden uses spam as an excuse, and a poor excuse at that. Anybody can cut down on spam by reducing access- real programmers/engineers/admins accept the challenge of providin

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread michael p
I dont think it matters if they were true or not- Google and every other walled garden uses spam as an excuse, and a poor excuse at that. Anybody can cut down on spam by reducing access- real programmers/engineers/admins accept the challenge of providing quality, open systems. This whole move sa

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Matthew Wild
On 22 May 2013 16:02, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On the other hand, not needing to interoperate with Google Talk might > free us to more aggressively work on network security improvements. I > say let's take this as an opportunity rather than a disappointment. Agreed. We're already preparing to u

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/22/13 10:32 AM, Kim Alvefur wrote: > On 2013-05-22 18:22, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: >> PS: I am wondering whether the claimed chat spam problems >> mentioned in the press articles are actually true? > > It matches what was said before, search this

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Kim Alvefur
On 2013-05-22 18:22, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > PS: I am wondering whether the claimed chat spam problems mentioned in the > press articles are actually true? It matches what was said before, search this list for "spammy invites". -- Kim signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On May 22, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On the other hand, not needing to interoperate with Google Talk might > free us to more aggressively work on network security improvements. I > say let's take this as an opportunity rather tha

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/22/13 9:15 AM, Philipp Hancke wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2013, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On the other hand, not needing to interoperate with Google Talk >> might free us to more aggressively work on network security >> improvements. I say let's tak

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Philipp Hancke
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On the other hand, not needing to interoperate with Google Talk might free us to more aggressively work on network security improvements. I say let's take this as an opportunity rather than a disappointment. +1. I wonder what the correlation between

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/22/13 8:52 AM, Jesse Thompson wrote: > Google failed to note the correlation of the drop in federated > XMPP connections with the fact that Google Apps (which internally > federates its hosted domains) and Office 365 (which doesn't support > XMPP

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-22 Thread Jesse Thompson
Google failed to note the correlation of the drop in federated XMPP connections with the fact that Google Apps (which internally federates its hosted domains) and Office 365 (which doesn't support XMPP federation) are gobbling up the market as organizations move to the cloud. Oh well ... it al

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: > Welcome back to the 90's people! > Does that mean I get to push ACAP again?

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Santiago26
According to my experience, S2S (and x...@gmail.com at all) is still working right now. I'm able to send messages from different servers to acco...@gmail.com. I also may connect to my gmail-account using any xmpp client. I just not use new Hangouts client and everything is ok. May be you have to c

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Kim Alvefur
On 2013-05-20 21:41, Simone Marzona wrote: > Battlestar Galactica - Intro: > > "...They look and feel human, > some are programmed to think they are human > there are many copies... > ...and they have a plan." This feels more appropriate: > "All this has happened before. All this will happen aga

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Simone Marzona
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 13:29 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Their party, yes. That doesn't mean we need to stop having fun with > open technologies. ;-) "Vangelo fratello!" (cit.) by -- Simone Marzona Linux registered user number: 509183 PGP key ID: 1024D/36F88CC3 Battlestar Galactica - I

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/20/13 1:24 PM, Simone Marzona wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 12:52 -0300, Sebastián Odena wrote: >> Does somebody have any news about google abandoning XMPP >> protocol? >> > > mm... > > I think that the party is quite over... Their party, yes

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Simone Marzona
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 12:52 -0300, Sebastián Odena wrote: > Does somebody have any news about google abandoning XMPP protocol? > mm... I think that the party is quite over... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/hands-on-with-hangouts-googles-new-text-and-video-chat-architectu

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Javier Revillas
My XMPP client can't connect with Google. Forget about it, they are stopping S2S to get something similar to WhatsApp. I don't know if this could be a temporaly situation, but we can give some days to Google and we'll see. *Javier R.* Pixelian España http://www.pixelian.org 2013/5/20 David Mo

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread David Mohr
As of today my client can't connect anymore (though I can't rule out that's only a temporary situation). Sad :-( ~David On 2013-05-19 21:17, Peter Kieser wrote: I can no longer send or receive messages to people that have updated to Google Hangouts. It shows them as being online, and messages

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-20 Thread Sebastián Odena
Forget about Google. It is a closed network now. You shall implement different alternatives :) On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Peter Kieser wrote: > I can no longer send or receive messages to people that have updated to > Google Hangouts. It shows them as being online, and messages are > "su

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-19 Thread Peter Kieser
I can no longer send or receive messages to people that have updated to Google Hangouts. It shows them as being online, and messages are "successfully" sent but they are not received by either party. -Peter On 2013-05-16 9:12 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: The best information I've been given is tha

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-16 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/16/13 10:23 AM, Jonas Wielicki wrote: >> On the plus side, this means there's no reason not to require TLS >> now. > > On the minus side, one of the most convincing arguments for peering > to people using XMPP (“you're already using it”) is kinda

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-16 Thread Jonas Wielicki
> On the plus side, this means there's no reason not to require TLS now. On the minus side, one of the most convincing arguments for peering to people using XMPP (“you're already using it”) is kinda gone. Seems to fit the pattern of them shutting down interconnecting services. Jonas.

Re: [Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-16 Thread Dave Cridland
The best information I've been given is that Google are stopping S2S entirely, and C2S will be a legacy interface to 1:1 text chat only. On the plus side, this means there's no reason not to require TLS now. Dave.

[Operators] google abandoning XMPP??

2013-05-16 Thread Sebastián Odena
Does somebody have any news about google abandoning XMPP protocol?