I received a nice comment to my earlier post on JEP-0070. Oh cool, I’m #2 on google for that search. Anyway, as you may recall, this JEP is about using Jabber as an out-of-band authentication mechanism for web, i.e. HTTP based applications. If you don’t mind, I’ll just paste the whole comment.

John Doe (wow, someone actually is named that?) said, and I quote:

I think that Mozilla needs to implement an integrated and hidden Jabber client, rather than have Mozilla speak to your Jabber client.

The reason is that in this way the user would be able to maintain seperate Jabber identities for chatting and for logging into sites (thus avoiding SPAM on his chat IM account). Also it would be easier for a user to retain anonymity in this way, by selecting a different Jabber identity for each site he visits. I believe that this is easier and more practical if the Jabber client is implemented in Mozilla.

Now I don’t know about it being necessary to have multiple jabber accounts to acheive this anonymity, but jabber embedded within Mozilla? Genius! My opinion would be not a full jabber client, but more of a middleware thing. It just sits there handling some extra communication duties that fall outside of the predominately one-way (downlink) transfer that HTTP already handles.

What do y’all think? (I’m from Georgia, “y’all” is allowed here.)

## update

Hmm, looks like #3 on that google search shows that Gajim now has JEP-0070 support. Way to go for them, now Psi needs it.