On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:47:25 +0100
Dave Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu Jul 31 17:54:32 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:
> > 
> > On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu Jul 31 17:17:40 2008, Pedro Melo wrote:
> >>>> Moving forward, this would allow clever clients to observe
> >>>> that it  wasn't a IM client capable of handling calendaring
> >>>> requests, but a  dumb calendaring bot working on behalf of the
> >>>> user.
> >>> Not following.
> >> 
> >> Clients could have an integrated calendaring app, allowing both  
> >> chat  and calendaring traffic to happen to the same full jid.
> >> 
> >> Alternately, it may only do one or the other.
> > 
> > Yes, but then you would only need to publish the proper <feature>.
> > 
> > What makes a automated system try a certain protocol is the  
> > feature,  not the identity. The identity automation/calender (per  
> > Peter example)  is only needed to mark a resource as a non-IM  
> > resource.
> > 
> > 
> Right, except in the case of IM, features are advertised. But to  
> advertise a lack of IM, we need to change the identity, since we  
> don't have an IM feature.
> 
> Of course, it'd really be automation/application, or  
> automation/daemon, since what kinds of protocols it's an automaton  
> for is, as you say, down to the features advertised.

Protocols/features and the purpose of the application may be different.
IMHO it depends on how much you want to distinguish.

> > So a clever Calendar application that also allows chat would  
> > probably  still announce itself with a client/pc but would also
> > set <feature> to  support cal-dav-over-xmpp, or whatever.
> 
> Of course - but I'm somewhat against a negative feature, if there's  
> any alternative.

+1

> Dave.

Pavel

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