I scribbled a response to Moxie's blog post from the perspective of someone heavily involved in XMPP here: https://medium.com/@dwdbah/federation-privacy-and-user-experience-c158547f07f5
TL;DR: He has some valid points, but his conclusions are very self-serving.
On 12 May 2016 at 16:37, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There was always compuserv.
And it is sad for everyone that we now have OTR, axolotl, double ratcheting and "signal tm".
Moxie started with OTR, migrated it to ECC and fragmented the encrypted IM community. It seems that now he has made it worse due to IPR.
Sad,
Paul
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> On May 11, 2016, at 08:55, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A very interesting paper (I said "intesresting", I didn't say I
> agree!) on open networks where independant nodes with independently
> developed programs interoperate thanks to standards. The author claims
> closed and centralized systemes are better, because they allow faster
> evolution (he uses security as an example).
>
> Many IETF cases mentioned (XMPP, IPv6, email...)
>
> https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/