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I think that what is needed is something that will work well over a peer to peer system. Probably
I think that what is needed is something that will work well over a peer to peer system. Probably
what you want to have happen is that a person wants to orignally use a system they would have to
what you want to have happen is that a person wants to orignally use a system they would have to
connect up a centralized server. When they connect and get a userid, it would then send data back to the client of a signed digital certificate. Aka, when I sign up I would get a signed digital certificate saying that I am profdeadmeat signed by the server that we all know. Probably this should use the Jabber protocol. When we are using a regular non supported network of peer2peers then what would happen is that machines would query machines around them for instant messanging. I think that it may be advisable to contact the [http://www.zeroconf.org/ Zero Conf Group] about this and that [http://www.multicastdns.org/ multicast DNS] may have solved some of these problems.
connect up a centralized server. When they connect and get a userid, it would then send data back to the client of a signed digital certificate. Aka, when I sign up I would get a signed digital certificate saying that I am profdeadmeat signed by the server that we all know. Probably this should use the Jabber protocol. When we are using a regular non supported network of peer2peers then what would happen is that machines would query machines around them for instant messanging. <br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; It looks like the [http://www.zeroconf.org/ Zero Conf Group] and the [http://www.multicastdns.org/ mDNS/DNS-SD] groups may have figured parts of this out. A product that does some of what you are talking about is [http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/features/bonjour/ Bonjour] [http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/features/ichat/ ichat] which is Apple's name for ZeroConf does do peer2peer chatting.

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I think Sonork [1] would be excelent for the system. It has not only offline messaging, but offline File Transfer!

I think that what is needed is something that will work well over a peer to peer system. Probably what you want to have happen is that a person wants to orignally use a system they would have to connect up a centralized server. When they connect and get a userid, it would then send data back to the client of a signed digital certificate. Aka, when I sign up I would get a signed digital certificate saying that I am profdeadmeat signed by the server that we all know. Probably this should use the Jabber protocol. When we are using a regular non supported network of peer2peers then what would happen is that machines would query machines around them for instant messanging.
   It looks like the Zero Conf Group and the mDNS/DNS-SD groups may have figured parts of this out. A product that does some of what you are talking about is Bonjour ichat which is Apple's name for ZeroConf does do peer2peer chatting.