Ralph Meijer wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:59 -0600, Daniel Henninger wrote:
>> The main problem with resources is that they're already being used for
>> other things with components.  MUC uses them for nicknames for
>> example.  So if for some hypothetical reason you had 3 external MUC
>> implementations that needed to use the same JID and they had to bind
>> with a resource, that would get confusing quick.
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/instance1/mynickname ?  (I don't think
>> that's a scenario that would come up, but hey.. just siting an example
>> of where a component uses resources already)
> 
> Hmm, well I don't see why the instance resources couldn't live next to
> the nicknames. Along the same line, there is no reason why MUC rooms and
> IM accounts couldn't live in the same namespace ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], for example). I have no strong preference for
> changing this (yet), but just wanted to relay my observation.

Right, you could have:

chat.example.org/7pd492dbr (a service instance)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bar (a room occupant)

Those are quite different things and they should be able to coexist.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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