Dougal Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Bart van Bragt wrote:
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There are already some online indicators available. The problem with
these indicators is that most of them work on a site basis. So you need
one bot/agent in your roster for every site where you want to display
your presence.
This reminds me of a discussion I had recently about Jabber. One of the things that came up was that a "weakness" of the decentralized nature of Jabber is that there is no central method for locating other Jabber users.
Let's say that you convince somebody to switch from some other messenger to Jabber. She sets up a jid "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Then she says "I wonder if my old friend Bob is on Jabber?" She does a JUD search, but doesn't find Bob. Unbeknownst to Alice, Bob *does* have a Jabber account ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"). But since the JUDs don't talk to each other, she has no easy way to find it, unless she contacts him by other means and asks him.
Has anyone thought about creating a centralized user directory? There could be an optional s2s component for the server implementations, and perhaps a direct c2s protocol that clients could implement, as well.
If such a project were started, it would be a good idea to fold presence into it as well.
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