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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

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/


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