[guardian-dev] Messaging Moving Forward

[Lee Azzarello]

Timur, the infrastructure is there because I'm guessing that 50% of
all IP addresses on the Internet are behind a NAT. The remainder of
address space is used up. If you do synchronous networking, you're
going to need each end to be able to transmit and receive at any time.
But I don't think that's what Hans is talking about. He's talking
about a unique address belonging to a registered user and that user
registering for that address through a client application.

-lee

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Timur Mehrvarz
<timur.mehrvarz at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 05/18/2013 01:07 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> XMPP servers support self-registration, so really the only hard part there is
>> getting the sign-up UX right.
> Why ask for registration at all? If the parties know how to address each
> other uniquely, then technically, there is no need for them to register.
> All they need is a "helping hand". Say, A and B have had a conversation.
> Some time later, A and C will have one. Why make the infrastructure
> aware of the fact, that A is the same party in both (all) cases? I
> assume that A's address known to B can be different from A's address
> known to C.
>
> - Timur
>
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