The proposal was embedding avatars in presence, which would not scale. Hopefully avatars will be reproposed once we have standardized on a discovery mechanism and publish/subscribe mechanism - its an interesting feature for IM.
-David Waite Klaus H. Wolf wrote: >Great, > >what does it mean? >"The proposal was bad" or "we do not need avatars". >Any other avatar developments? > >-- >Dr. Klaus H. Wolf >bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG >http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw >+49 (0721) 16108 75 > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >>Julian Missig >>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 5:30 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: [JDEV] JEP-8 User Avatars in Jabber >> >> >>Despite what the "Status" field says, JEP-0008 was rejected. >> >>On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:16, Klaus H. Wolf wrote: >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>is JEP-8 still considered active? >>>Is it worth discussing and worth as a guideline? >>> >>>If yes, here the comment: >>>- JEP-8 proposes 2 methods for retrieving the avatar data: >>> >>> >>client-client and >> >> >>>client-storage >>>- it prefers client-client >>>- I discovered the following behaviour: if the client changes >>> >>> >>the avatar, >> >> >>>then many other clients request the new data, and the server >>> >>> >>throttles the >> >> >>>connection because of e.g. 10 x 5 KB. >>> >>>Solution: >>>- prefer client-storage over client-client. >>>- if the client gets a request then it knows it must submit to >>> >>> >>the storage >> >> >>>to avoid further requests. >>> >>>Regards >>>-- >>>Dr. Klaus H. Wolf >>>bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG >>>http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw >>>+49 (0721) 16108 75 >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>jdev mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >jdev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
