[Standards-JIG] Invitation to use XMPP based game from Instant Messaging Application.

[Michal vorner Vaner]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:15:47PM -0400, Tim Hentenaar wrote:
> Op wo, 23-08-2006 te 18:52 +0200, schreef Olivier Goffart:
> > The idea is that you want to have a "Play Chess" button on your IM client,  
> > but you don't want actually implement the chess game directly into your 
> > application. Anyway, you want to let contact aware that you can play chess, 
> > and even want to initiate the game from the messaging client.
> 
> I had a similar yet different idea some time ago. This thread has got me
> thinking about it again.
> 
> My idea was basically to extend jabber by specifying a means by which
> the server would send the client on either end the necessary info to
> establish a connection, etc.
> 
> You could certainly use Jingle for signaling, the underlying idea being
> that it dosen't matter which game, or what port, that the client should
> also have the ability to dynamically setup a game session with
> user-specified values or preset defaults.
> 
> I guess something like this would probably fall under the Jingle
> umbrella. I might write a JEP for such a content description format over
> Jingle this weekend. :P 

Well, why jingle? :-O I guess chess game is neither time nor data amount
critical to use jingle for it. The game is simply over the XMPP stream,
this is just about not running the game all the time and still let other
know "I would not say no to a game".

> It would also definitely be intersting to also be able to use something
> like PubSub so that any number of users could subscribe to, and watch a
> chess game if the app were Jabber-aware :P

Hm, all these pubsub things have one big problem: I did not yet met a
server supporting PEP and PubSub itself is heavilly overcomplicated for
such a simple thing.

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