On 7/30/10 6:03 PM, Paul Aurich wrote: > On 2010-07-30 08:03, Florian Zeitz wrote: >> On 30.07.2010 14:33, Jonny Lamb wrote: >>> 2. sms: at least MSN and Yahoo also have a feature which means that >>> you can add phone numbers to your contact list. They appear as >>> contacts in your contact list but are not actually running IM >>> clients, and any messages sent to these contacts will be sent via >>> SMS. >>> >> That sounds like a gateway to me for which a "sms" type is already >> registered. > > Not all of the contacts online via an MSN transport are going to be > using SMS, though. It would seem to make sense to me for those contacts > to identify themselves like: > > <identity category='gateway' type='msn'/> > <identity category='client' type='sms'/> > ... > > Well, I'm not sure the individual contacts are on a transport should > have a category='gateway' (the morning coffee hasn't kicked in yet), but > a client type of SMS seems reasonable to me.
In service discovery, how would I communicate via XMPP with an SMS client? Now, it's possible that a client might support multiple protocols, and we don't have a good way to indicate that right now. We might to re-use most of the existing gateway types for that purpose, e.g.: client/aim client/sms One exception might be "client/http-ws". Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
