Hi All, As I understand it, XMPP can be used to provide XMPP-like communications P2P using serverless protocol methods.
In terms of scenarios, I see a need for it in areas of low connectivity such as rural areas and perhaps in ad-hoc military operations in temporary hotspots. It also has advantages in WiFi hotspots between friends and at conferences and so forth. However, are there security-driven scenarios in a corporate setting that would require serverless XMPP communication? Perhaps there is a reason why some subnet or office department cannot connection to the centralised XMPP server and must communicate internally over the XMPP P2P setup. Are there any such scenarios? I suppose in a small business environment, one could argue that budget and lack of IT staff may make the serverless setup more appealing. In that, they do not have a budget to purchase a server and have IT staff regularly update and configure the XMPP server. I'd be keen to hear about various serverless scenarios that you may have come across. My understanding of the serverless scenario in its current development is that XMPP traffic is unencrypted by default (unless someone has created some encrypted tunnel before hand, perhaps over SSH). Similarly, there is no authentication and thus one cannot verify they are talking to a colleague or friend. Comments are welcome. regards, Paddy.
