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why not just extend the email protocol to really support open calendars, open social networks (decentralized) and open p2p chat? email is a nice way of address
by abakker 5y ago
why not just extend the email protocol to really support open calendars, open social networks (decentralized) and open p2p chat?
email is a nice way of addressing, but we underuse that address compared to all the balkanized post-email systems.
- hkt 5y agoThere are efforts in those directions: https://delta.chat/en/ https://delta.chat/en/ implements encrypted IM over email. https://jmap.io/spec-calendars.html https://jmap.io/spec-calendars.html is the calendaring spec for IMAP's likely successor https://webfinger.net/ https://webfinger.net/ is the (appallingly named) http protocol for finding named people such that social connections can be made and managed. Some extensions exist for services that commonly run with email that provide webfinger services.
- I_complete_me 5y agoDelta chat look very interesting, thanks for mentioning it. What are the possible downsides? Looks like a winning tech to my non-tech eyes.
- cloudkilla 5y agoIt gives a lot of metadata to the email providers.
- pmontra 5y agoEmail has nothing to do with calendars. It happened that people in offices used email and attended to a lot of meetings. Microsoft built a client/server system (Exchange) that managed both email and calendars. There were probably previous systems like that, I don't remember. We need only a calendar client now (usually on phones) even if most systems send an email notification.