[Standards] file transfer

[Richard Dobson]

> I digress, but... you cannot surf and call on GPRS at the same time, 
> generally.  This is why if someone calls a GSM phone while you are 
> loading a webpage, they will generally go straight to voicemail.
Just to correct you here but they wont goto voicemail (if you are 
connected to WAP using a dial up method maybe), but you can definitely 
be downloading via GPRS/3G/HSDPA and still make and receive calls, i've 
done it myself.


Ive been reading this thread with interest and while I must agree with 
most of the comments about Jonathan's suggestion expressed here it has 
stirred up some simple ideas of my own related to file transfer.

automatic file pre-compression
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It would be handy to be able to automatically compress files before they 
are transferred and then be able to specify this in the SI negotiation 
allowing the receiving client to then automatically decompress the file 
once it has received it, this could greatly help with the size of file 
transfers and would also only need to be done for file types that would 
benefit from it, i.e. you wouldn't bother with files that were already 
compressed or things like audio and video files that are likely to only 
get marginal gains.

jingle bytestream
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When we come to implement file transfer using jingle I would suggest 
that rather than creating a brand new backwards incompatible file 
transfer protocol that we simply implement a new jingle bytestream 
transport just like XEP-0047 and XEP-0065 which would allow complete 
compatibility with the SI negotiation but still gets all the benefits a 
file transfer over jingle UDP would bring, i.e. better likelihood of 
connection.

Richard