"PUBLISH with soft-state has a life time associated with it.". I am
rephrasing this, PUBLISH always has life time associated with the
soft-state it carries.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Vikram Chhibber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nitin, PUBLISH with soft-state has a life time associated with it. If
>  Server detects that there is expiration of this duration, it can
>  assume the user is off-line. The problem is that the Server needs to
>  wait for the publish expiration to conclude. The server may like to
>  decrease the refresh rate to avoid long publish life-time. Other way
>  is use some device audit technique like using OPTIONS, the server can
>  pole the availability of the PUA.
>
>  You may like to couple registration with presence but again the
>  registration has the same problem as PUBLISH as the client will not be
>  able to un-register if it is not turned-off gracefully and this
>  technique assumed that the registrar and presence-server are somehow
>  able to communicate.
>
>  http://www.veraznetworks.com
>  ~Vikram
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Nitin Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >  I am working on a presence client and using SER as presence server.
>  >  I am using PUBLISH to publish my presence status (i.e. online, offline, 
> away
>  >  etc.) to the sever, and using SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY to know the status of the
>  >  UAs in my friend's list.
>  >
>  >  Now my problem is what if my UA is turned off and unable to send PUBLISH 
> to
>  >  update its presence status. is there any way to get rid of this problem.
>  >
>  >  one way I can think of is that Server will check for the registration 
> status
>  >  of that UA and on registration expiration it will automatically change the
>  >  presence status to offline, but what if registration period is too long, 
> its
>  >  presence status will be kept like orphan on the proxy.
>  >
>  >  second way is that UA itself periodically update the status through 
> PUBLISH
>  >  but I don't know if any IETF standard defines or recommends this and if 
> such
>  >  rfc exists then Does SER (Proxy) supports it or not?
>  >
>  >  Please share any opinion.
>  >
>  >  Thanks & Regards
>  >  Nitin Arora
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