To my mind, what you call "the resource system" is an addressing scheme.
Are you proposing that we throw out the resource part of a Jabber ID?

Just curious. :)

Peter

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Dave wrote:

> Maybe we should consider tossing the "resource" system, and replacing it with a 
>pub/sub architecture; that'll allow individual users to define the answers to all the 
>questions below, rather than having an increasingly complex protocol dictate answers 
>that may be somewhat less than perfectly apparent even to people as intelligent and 
>well-versed in Jabber as Mr. Waite (obviously much less apparent to your average Joe 
>using Jabber as a simple IM system - myself, for instance).
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, there's no requirement for JNG to be compatible with 
>the current Jabber protocol, so we should be able to pull off the switch at this 
>point.  In the long run, I believe we'll find that the work to overhaul the whole 
>basic Jabber protocol will have been well worthwhile.  (In fact, I'd be willing to 
>rewrite any part of the OSS Jabber server that nobody else wants to - I have a fair 
>amount of free time that I spend coding my Jabber proxy server (and reading most of 
>the Jabber and IPv6-related mailing lists) that I wouldn't mind reallocating to work 
>on rewriting parts of jabberd, if that's what it takes to get the Jabber protocol 
>refocused on a fundamental architecture that'll give us a tremendous amount of power 
>in the messaging and presence management worlds, as well as a concrete base on which 
>media delivery systems can be built with relative ease.)
> 
> Dave Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
> David Waite wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a couple of the questions I'm wondering
> > 
> > - What is the behavior when a lower-priority resource changes presence?
> > - What is the behavior when a lower-priority resource changes to the 
> > highest priority, or vice-versa? (keep in mind that some clients change 
> > priority when they go auto-away, and any presence change within a 
> > priority level makes that client have the highest priority)
> > - What is the behavior when the highest-priority resource logs out? (I'm 
> > assuming a lower-priority resource is ignored)
> > - How should invisible mode interact, in both the case where the remote 
> > system does and does not support invisible mode?
> > - What is the correct behavior when a message is sent from a resource 
> > which is not the highest priority? Do responses get sent to a different 
> > client (and how would that happen)?
> > 
> > -David Waite
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