Nice to have, but ultimately unenforceable and irritating when half baked.
You’d end up with either a basic standard everyone supports and then extends in their own proprietary ways, limiting interoperability to SMS like content (at which point just use SMS, they’re included in every phone plan), or with multiple apps built on top of the same protocol (which IMHO would be better).
That said, don’t we already have the protocol in the form of XMPP? I remember people trying to make XMPP compatibility a big selling point for Skype almost a decade ago, and cross-chat compatibility between Skype, WL Messenger and one of the infinite Google chat services.
No idea how that ended up.
Perhaps something like E2EE XMPP, if that is a thing?
Afaik encryption, group chats, video calls, and so on are actually required by this law if the messengers support them for their own users. So they can’t just offer a text only one-to-one chat and call it a day.
There is no reason to be limited to SMS like content.
It’s not like Standards like Matrix or RCS exist which support almost all features that most Instant Messengers do
Nice to have, but ultimately unenforceable and irritating when half baked.
You’d end up with either a basic standard everyone supports and then extends in their own proprietary ways, limiting interoperability to SMS like content (at which point just use SMS, they’re included in every phone plan), or with multiple apps built on top of the same protocol (which IMHO would be better).
That said, don’t we already have the protocol in the form of XMPP? I remember people trying to make XMPP compatibility a big selling point for Skype almost a decade ago, and cross-chat compatibility between Skype, WL Messenger and one of the infinite Google chat services. No idea how that ended up.
Perhaps something like E2EE XMPP, if that is a thing?
Afaik encryption, group chats, video calls, and so on are actually required by this law if the messengers support them for their own users. So they can’t just offer a text only one-to-one chat and call it a day.
Sadly, SMS is not included in every phone plan.
There is no reason to be limited to SMS like content. It’s not like Standards like Matrix or RCS exist which support almost all features that most Instant Messengers do