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@ -30,48 +30,52 @@ ecosystem to communicate with one another.
The principles that Matrix attempts to follow are:
- Pragmatic Web-friendly APIs (i.e. JSON over REST)
- Keep It Simple & Stupid
- Pragmatic Web-friendly APIs (i.e. JSON over REST)
- Keep It Simple & Stupid
+ provide a simple architecture with minimal third-party dependencies.
+ provide a simple architecture with minimal third-party dependencies.
- Fully open:
- Fully open:
+ Fully open federation - anyone should be able to participate in the global Matrix network
+ Fully open standard - publicly documented standard with no IP or patent licensing encumbrances
+ Fully open source reference implementation - liberally-licensed example implementations with no
IP or patent licensing encumbrances
+ Fully open federation - anyone should be able to participate in the global
Matrix network
+ Fully open standard - publicly documented standard with no IP or patent
licensing encumbrances
+ Fully open source reference implementation - liberally-licensed example
implementations with no IP or patent licensing encumbrances
- Empowering the end-user
- Empowering the end-user
+ The user should be able to choose the server and clients they use
+ The user should be control how private their communication is
+ The user should know precisely where their data is stored
+ The user should be able to choose the server and clients they use
+ The user should be control how private their communication is
+ The user should know precisely where their data is stored
- Fully decentralised - no single points of control over conversations or the network as a whole
- Learning from history to avoid repeating it
- Fully decentralised - no single points of control over conversations or the
network as a whole
- Learning from history to avoid repeating it
+ Trying to take the best aspects of XMPP, SIP, IRC, SMTP, IMAP and NNTP whilst trying to avoid their failings
+ Trying to take the best aspects of XMPP, SIP, IRC, SMTP, IMAP and NNTP
whilst trying to avoid their failings
The functionality that Matrix provides includes:
- Creation and management of fully distributed chat rooms with no
single points of control or failure
- Eventually-consistent cryptographically secure synchronisation of room
state across a global open network of federated servers and services
- Sending and receiving extensible messages in a room with (optional)
end-to-end encryption
- Extensible user management (inviting, joining, leaving, kicking, banning)
mediated by a power-level based user privilege system.
- Extensible room state management (room naming, aliasing, topics, bans)
- Extensible user profile management (avatars, displaynames, etc)
- Managing user accounts (registration, login, logout)
- Use of 3rd Party IDs (3PIDs) such as email addresses, phone numbers,
Facebook accounts to authenticate, identify and discover users on Matrix.
- Trusted federation of Identity servers for:
- Creation and management of fully distributed chat rooms with no
single points of control or failure
- Eventually-consistent cryptographically secure synchronisation of room
state across a global open network of federated servers and services
- Sending and receiving extensible messages in a room with (optional)
end-to-end encryption
- Extensible user management (inviting, joining, leaving, kicking, banning)
mediated by a power-level based user privilege system.
- Extensible room state management (room naming, aliasing, topics, bans)
- Extensible user profile management (avatars, displaynames, etc)
- Managing user accounts (registration, login, logout)
- Use of 3rd Party IDs (3PIDs) such as email addresses, phone numbers,
Facebook accounts to authenticate, identify and discover users on Matrix.
- Trusted federation of Identity servers for:
+ Publishing user public keys for PKI
+ Mapping of 3PIDs to Matrix IDs
+ Publishing user public keys for PKI
+ Mapping of 3PIDs to Matrix IDs
The end goal of Matrix is to be a ubiquitous messaging layer for synchronising
arbitrary data between sets of people, devices and services - be that for instant