On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Carlo v. Loesch wrote:
On the technical issue of [EMAIL PROTECTED] i must say I really dislike how Jabber cannot deal with a clean transparent notation like msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] These kludgy jid-deformations are both ugly and hard to understand for the end user. Why should she put the hostname into the user field and a fake hostname into the hostname field, when adding an MSN buddy to her roster? Also icq:12345 would be much nicer than the kludge that transports provide. Additionally, you leave it to the server to route to the transport. Why should you have a lot of new friendships just because you switched to a different transport (= the one you had broke down or you no longer trust his privacy promises).
I think this is more of a usability issue with the client program, not the protocol itself. Pandion, for example, works from the user's perspective in a way similar to what you describe.
__________________ Robert Quattlebaum Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.deepdarc.com/
