[Social] Pubsub Nodes in Roster

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Remko Tronçon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>  http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0173.html
> 
> I wanted to suggest that earlier, but it seemed like you wanted to
> standardize the UI part, not the pubsub part, so I didn't bother with
> the protocol ;-) This is an old protocol, though (introduced before we
> had PEP, because we needed that for extended presence back then),
> which is why it has been deferred. 

Correct.

Unfortunately we don't have a way to store node information in the
roster without some hack or changes to jabber:iq:roster, so I think
putting this in private storage (via iq:private or PEP) is the way to go.

> I think the new way of doing things
> is to store private storage using PEP (i.e. using pubsub to store your
> pubsub subscriptions ;-)).
> 
> But yes, in order to track your pubsub subscriptions in a standardized
> way, we would need a protocol like that, either using iq:private, or
> using PEP.
> Of course, this relies on the fact that every pubsub client uses this.

Yeah. In fact it's worse, because every server needs PEP support too.

Peter

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