In article <alpine.LFD.2.20.1509111040290.21480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, John Levine wrote: > >> It was definitely a victory for open standads when Google and Facebook >> adopted XMPP for their systems. The people I know at both companies >> are pretty reasonable, so if they're diverging from the specs it's >> unlikely to be just to be gratuitously incompatible. > >Could you ask your the people you know why Google Talk Service >does not support server-to-server encryption via TLS mandated by RFC >3920 in 2004? Sure, when I see them which probably won't be for a while. I'd think that things being as they are, they would want to encrypt where possible. R's, John