On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Kurt Zeilenga <kurt.zeile...@isode.com>wrote:
> We need to keep experiments from harming our production networks. If this > extensions gets used blindly, it might well trash some production network. > > I don't care how this feature is negotiated between the two entities > intended to experiment with it, I only care that I have some ability to > disrupt that negotiation so I can prevent this extensions use and hence > protect my network from the real harm that would come by its use on my > network. > We should keep this in perspective: This is XMPP RTT, not in-band bytestreams (i.e. XEP-0096 file transfer). It is low bandwidth the vast majority of the time, and contributes no additional data when nobody is typing. That said, I agree -- it is going to be added to the spec in due time, well before XMPP RTT clients become popular.
