Dave Cridland wrote: > Oh, and before I forget, someone also mentioned communities in jdev a > while back (perhaps the week before last), and a customer was talking > abut the desire for something fairly similar. > > I looked at the communities proto-xep, and it looks... curiously > compelling, but perhaps too complicated.
I haven't looked at that in ages. Wasn't it really just a profile or flavor of MUC? > I think we could actually do > communities entirely client-side, using MUC in order to both share > presence bilaterally with other community members, and also broadcast > messages to the community, in a curious and slightly microbloggery way - > effectively, it's just a different interface on MUC, rather than a > different protocol on the wire. I think we could do this with a roomless MUC, if you will (which is what we discussed at FOSDEM 2007 IIRC). > Is there any interest in specifying something like this, and, more > importantly, would client authors consider implementing something like > this? I'm always interested in specifying things. :) How does your client-side idea tie into "private MUC"? http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/private-muc.html Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
