>silliness of the inability to federate The moment you open the door for federation, the protocol is written in stone forever. All it takes is one server in th

>silliness of the inability to federate The moment you open the door for federation, the protocol is written in stone forever. All it takes is one server in the federation network with a substantial user base that chooses not to update. (See SMTP). OWS decided that relinquishing the ability to force updates (i.e. away from a broken cryptosystem) would sacrifice too much in the way of security to be consistent with the project's goals.