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The API is dead. Long live the protocol!
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Simon Tennant
September 20, 2013
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The API is dead. Long live the protocol!
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Simon Tennant
September 20, 2013
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Transcript
The API is dead, long live the protocol or how
we reinvent messaging
buddycloud
None
your client your API
your client your API
your client your API
API: standalone protocol: very useful when you want to interconnect
today the age of the quadrant once upon a time
back to the future
The ice cream of the internet Robert Scoble credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/labyrinthx-2/
we solved this with email
[email protected]
friend@flickr.com
[email protected]
let me count the brokenness
so let’s build the future - requirements
so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages
so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages
2. anyone can host it
so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages
2. anyone can host it 3. reliable
so let’s build the future - requirements 1. structured messages
2. anyone can host it 3. reliable 4. easy to implement
problem 1: addressing
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
query: _your-app-name._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. result: IN SRV 5 0 443 server.EXAMPLE.COM. Problem
2: discovering remote servers
problem 3: discovering the API
problem 3: discovering the API https://buddycloud.example.com:443/api
webfinger: http://example.com/.well-known/API-server IANA service registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names- port-numbers
Problem 4: fast server resync
Problem 5: fast client resync
Problem 5: fast client resync
Problem 6: We still believe in privacy
• Diaspora • Freedom box • pump.io • buddycloud •
Mozilla persona • webRTC • &Yet personal cloud related projects
•W3C incubator •IANA •IETF •XMPP Standards Foundation your next steps
None
once upon a time v1.0 (31 Oct): full messaging/web/Android v1.1
WebRTC + channels v1.2 end-to-end encryption v1.3 Mozilla Persona integration used everywhere next
let’s redesign messaging for the next 30 years