[Standards-JIG] proto-JEP: Smart Presence Distribution

[Richard Dobson]

> Well, with this discussion, I decided I will write a JEP myself (which
> would handle generic smartcast and could be extended to any particular
> case to add more saving - so exactly the other way around). I wanted 
> to extend the advanced addressing component to store the lists and 
> wanted the hash to be part of the JID (the name of the list, like 
> md5 at smartcast.server.net).

If you need a hand with the JEP let me know (or with having a reference 
implementation as ive looked at doing this in the past). I started to 
write some stuff up too as it seems the only real solution to this 
discussion is probably just a good old competition between the two 
approaches and see which the community likes best (my bet would be the 
more extensible, more reliable, less hacky, more generic, more 
de-couplable solution, but we will just have to see).

It might be easier to implement if you use 
listname at smartcast.server.net/md5, then you can still cleanly address 
the list but also detect whether

> I need to think of few little details (like, how to save the lists, how
> to report errors and everything..)

Just have a look at my posts on this subject an IQ based approach seems 
like the best and most generic way to me.

Richard