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Google Wave Choice of XMPP Not the Death of HTTP (f5.com)
12 points by lmacvittie on June 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



It's tragic that this article even needed to be written, but at least the people the author is responding to are aware that wave is a protocol, huh? Baby steps...


No kidding... the Internet was original conceived of being made up of purpose specific protocols. FTP for file transfer, NNTP for chat boards, IRC for real-time chat and so on. It was only with the hacked (over)use of NAT and wide spread deployment of lazily configured (read: over-paranoid) firewalls that this original vision was sidetracked through the HTTP pinhole (and is also hamstringing deployment of IPv6 to boot!)




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