[olpc-software] graceful handling of out-of-memory conditions

[Mike Hearn]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Jabber looks like the most promising protocol for that; we can either
> elect machines to be jabber servers dynamically, or work on making
> jabber more peer to peer.  And jabber also has the concept of store and
> forward messages (part of why it is probably our best bet as a
> technology base for IM).
>   
Unless the Jabber protocol has changed a lot since I last worked with it 
(a few years ago), it's very much a client/server protocol and would be 
hard to adapt to a serverless environment (a Jabber server is a very 
heavy thing so I'm not sure electing them on the fly will work).

There is already a P2P chat protocol in use thanks to iChat, which works 
pretty well, and it seems Gaim implements it. Updating it to use Avahi 
rather than Howl would be a lot less work, and give most of the flexibility.

thanks -mike