On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:02 +0100, Torsten Dreyer wrote:
Yes, I also thought it sounded like "groups", but I was thinking that
the client would send
a list of <group-name> strings that a user wanted to be part of when
it sends the pilot call-sign and aircraft type information.
This would also allow the creation of ad-hoc groups, just by entering
a group name. It may also need a
boolean if the client wants to only receiving information for the
named group, or all MP data.
S.
> Without having thought about the technical implementation, the concept of
> having "groups" comes to my mind.
> Probably some set of predefined groups, like
> - Beginner
> - Adheres to/provides ATC
> - Combat/Fighter on a mission
> - Airliner
> and/or locally defined groups.
> The user can select what groups he belongs to and only gets the MP traffic
> from other members of these groups.
> If the MP-server knows about these groups and it's members, it is able to
> distribute it's data to a limited set of users. This should save some traffic
> and might help with a growing community of MP-pilots.
> Immediately the idea of using a directory server with LDAP access pops up in
> my head.
> And, unfortunately, that this does not sound like a trivial task :-(
>
> Torsten
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