Kudos to Google for working *with* an existing protocol! Looking forward to trying this package's version of nxproxy. I use it to forward R and Octave visualizations from cluster back-ends...
Posted Jul 27, 2009 16:44 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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Google actually does a very good job of using existing protocols, at least for stuff that's not internal to the company. E.g., Google Talk is XMPP with a few extensions using XMPP's standard extension mechanism; their Wave protocol is also an XMPP extension (with the interesting aspect that it implies XMPP servers talking to each other without necessarily having any XMPP clients at the ends).