Hi, I wrote a first draft of a possible XMPP extension which opens new use cases for XMPP. But before I go into details, let me introduce myself: my name is Dirk Meyer and I work at the TZI which is part of the University of Bremen. My doctor thesis is about media networks and possible new use cases if all devices of a user can interact with each other.
Unlike a HTTP based approach like UPnP, XMPP provides a much better core for what I call a "Personal Media Network". My first (not finished) draft can be found at http://www.tzi.de/~dmeyer/media-network.html Before finishing it and sending it to the XMPP council I want to ask on this list for some opinions about it. It clearly uses XMPP in a way XMPP was not indented to be used, but it could be the base for new use cases (examples of such use cases are in the document). Besides working at the TZI I'm also maintainer of the Freevo project and want to use the XMPP based private network as communication between different media applications inside Freevo. I already have a small Python based XMPP implementation specially designed for this use cases (not in public svn yet). So, if you have some free minutes, please take a look at my draft and tell me what you think about this idea. Regards, Dirk -- The world is full of willing people -- some willing to work and some willing to let them. - Robert Frost.
