Comment 27 for bug 296867

(In reply to comment #19)
> I think helping the XMPP Standards people to provide end-to-end encryption
> (implementing <http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/xtls.html> or something like
> it, and advancing it to Recommended status) is a much better use of developer
> time; it'll result in a better protocol, with a well-defined security model,
> that does not conflict with the protocol's normal extensibility mechanisms.
>

OTR also works over non-XMPP networks (I use primarily over AIM). That's something that this XMPP standard can never achieve.

I'm not taking sides - just stating some (hopefully) useful facts.