It is good because it may finally get German healthcare systems to stop relying on fax. It’s still very different from WhatsApp or Zoom, because as I understand it won’t just be one huge central Matrix Server but rather an internal federation between various providers and maybe even servers self hosted by the hospitals. It’s similar to the French administration or the German Army having their internal federations (I think the French actually have a public instance so citizens can contact them). Why should your internal comms be federated to the public? That’s an unnecessary security risk
It will not stop them from relying on fax. That is a legal issue in Germany. Fax is recognized as a legal form of communication like snail-mail letters, while email or messenger is not.
And anyways, they need an externally accessible database system for reporting infectious disease case-loads, not a messenger.
Running it on open federation is a very low additional security risk (some fishing maybe?) compared to the synergetic effects that might have. Look at the examples you mentioned above… some of them are a few years old already and did they have any relevant effect on the broader government or the general public? AFAIK no.
Is the protocol used no longer Matrix due to the more extensive credential verification steps?
Idk… but even if this is still internally 100% the Matrix protocol, it is basically irrelevant to the Matrix federation.
WhatsApp and Zoom are also non-federating XMPP forks and there really isn’t anything great about that either.
The only thing this is “good” for is driving up the perceived value for the venture capital investors that currently fund Element/New Vector.
It is good because it may finally get German healthcare systems to stop relying on fax. It’s still very different from WhatsApp or Zoom, because as I understand it won’t just be one huge central Matrix Server but rather an internal federation between various providers and maybe even servers self hosted by the hospitals. It’s similar to the French administration or the German Army having their internal federations (I think the French actually have a public instance so citizens can contact them). Why should your internal comms be federated to the public? That’s an unnecessary security risk
It will not stop them from relying on fax. That is a legal issue in Germany. Fax is recognized as a legal form of communication like snail-mail letters, while email or messenger is not.
And anyways, they need an externally accessible database system for reporting infectious disease case-loads, not a messenger.
Running it on open federation is a very low additional security risk (some fishing maybe?) compared to the synergetic effects that might have. Look at the examples you mentioned above… some of them are a few years old already and did they have any relevant effect on the broader government or the general public? AFAIK no.