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

["Thomas D. Charron" <tcharron@my-deja.com>]

  Again, yes..  But it would need to be an optional type of thing, due to the decentralized nature of jabber.  We where looking at one of these:

A) Master Registry that trolled for users

B) Master Registry that servers could optionally 'PUSH' user data up to.  This would be nice in that you could have several different master servers that users could list themselves on..  'The Sewing' master server, etc..  Kind of like phone books that you can publish your data in for free..

C) Oh, I can't remember, I will try to dig thru the archives and dig up the messages..
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Thomas Charron

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 23:19:40   Anders Qvist wrote:
>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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>
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