[PLUG] GAIM and MSN
Jason Van Clere
jason at vancleve.com
Wed Oct 22 10:33:02 UTC 2003
Thus spoke Robert Munro, on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:09:36 -0700:
> Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) at http://www.silcnet.org .
Interesting, but I don't see how this enables a globally unique identifier, as with ICQ. It's completely decentralized, no?
(Of course, the idea is to be able to meet someone in a bar and say, "Look for me on [Jason's-perfect-world-IM-protocol]. My nick is zaphod42." And that would do it. No connecting to a specific network a la IRC; and if I had given my nick to someone eight years prior, they could still find me, etc., etc. . . .)
--Jason V. C.
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