Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:45 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Clicking on a link of this form would add this person to your buddy > list. Communicating with a this form of buddy would, in parallel, (a) > attempt to contact the IPv6 Link-Local address formed from the lower > 64 bits of the SHA-25

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread Robert McQueen
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 7:57 PM, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> Currently we use the buddy key as this unifying key, but I very much >> like the idea of providing extra information to open up the prospect of >> communicating between schools

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 19, 2008 7:57 PM, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Currently we use the buddy key as this unifying key, but I very much > like the idea of providing extra information to open up the prospect of > communicating between schools, and allowing the XOs to exis

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread Robert McQueen
C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 5:47 PM, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A similar, but more standards-compliant[1][2] proposal might look more like: >> xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The key part of my original proposal is that it also works in the > (possibly temporary) absen

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Feb 19, 2008 5:47 PM, Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A similar, but more standards-compliant[1][2] proposal might look more like: > xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The key part of my original proposal is that it also works in the (possibly temporary) absence of a school school or of networ

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread Robert McQueen
Robert McQueen wrote: > Key verification of link-locally reachable contacts can be used to > resolve these contacts on the local network too. Ah, I misread a bit of the OP, deriving local IPv6 addresses from the contact address is actually a pretty neat tweak. :) It's orthogonal to the addressing

Re: A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread Robert McQueen
Such a thing would be most excellent, indeed. :) A similar, but more standards-compliant[1][2] proposal might look more like: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Clicking on a link of this form: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] could add the individual as a friend, or a link like this: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] might s

A modest proposal.

2008-02-19 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I propose installing a handler for a new URI type in our browse application. The links will look like: friend:name.xxx.school.country.xs.laptop.org where: name is a Punycode encoding of the XO nickname. Technically, the IDN ToASCII mapping operation is performed on the nickname, truncated on