Jabber registry (was: [JDEV] charsets (was: Protocol extension?))

[Anders Qvist <quest@netg.se>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, patrick wrote:

> > Come to think of it, this would help bots and the like too, in that
> > they could talk to people in their native language. It would
> > definitively be nice if the roster info included preferred language
> > and probably charset as well.
> > 
> 	This is probably more of a profile issue. The Jabber protocol
> doesn't really get into this area - because you could also specify your
> age, because that could be relevant, or anything, really. What isn't
> neccessary for clients to understand a message shouldn't be in the
> protocol, but rather in a user profile stored with a separate mechanism,
> such as LDAP, which is very good for this sort of thing.
> 
> 	There'll be a need for a jabber registry, or more than one,
> anyway.

Sure thing. I don't care how it is stored, so long as the information
is easily available to jabber clients so they can look it up when
sending messages. I saw the roster as being the single store for all
relevant info on users. Being a newvomer I may have overlooked this
part. Are there any docs on a profile store/registry? Any substantial
thoughts in the matter?

Anders "Quest" Qvist
NetGuide Scandinavia

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