-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/17/09 11:16 AM, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Hello, > > I had recently a brainstorming session with some Telepathy hackers to > discuss how pubsub could be used to improve collaboration between > applications and web services. > > During this discussion we considered some use cases where a web service > or some of your contacts would be able to push information to one of > your pubsub node but without being able to subscribe to this node or > retrieve its items (so the webservice wouldn't be able to see what your > contacts published). > > For example, let's say you have a node "photos" to which your contacts > can publish URL's of photos on which you are tagged. We could imagine to > have a Facebook application pushing to this node as well. We wouldn't > want that Facebook can see what have been published by contacts.
Facebook knows all anyway, doesn't it? ;-) > Another example could be that you have a pubsub node on your own jabber > server used by mail services to push mail notifications. Gmail and > Hotmail should be able to publish information to this node but not to > read it. Good point. > In order to properly implement such use cases, we could add a > "Publish-only" affiliations to the existing ones [1]: > > Subscribe: No > Retrieve Items: No > Publish Item: Yes > Delete Item: Yes/No > Configure Node: No > Delete Node: No > Purge Node: Yes/No > > Any thoughts? I have no deep objections, and I can see many use cases in which this would be useful. Anyone else? Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkrCkvQACgkQNL8k5A2w/vz0FACfZSxq6Y4I8SBcNb8JjXdGy8sV y+cAnRzg8SUz21dg0pJMy4zqwN62N+0H =qE14 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
