On 11/12/18 11:12 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > Slack lets you archive discussions. As long as the provider meets IETF policies on control over the archives, that's great. > Not that I'm suggesting using > Slack; We can use whatever meets the requirements we have, I suppose. > I'm just pointing out reasons why Jabber hasn't taken off, and > why it's not working for us. Those are two different questions. > Federation _is_ mandatory, in the sense > that I can't join an IETF jabber room without it. The IETF could run its own Jabber server, or registered attendees could use Meetecho as described earlier in this thread. > I think there's a larger problem to be looked at here, of which this > particular point is one aspect. It would be good to write something > up. At the same time, it's a time sink, and I don't have any slack > time right now in which to do it. :( If you spent less time on Slack, you might have more slack time. ;-) Peter