[Standards] Jingle initiate and resource determination

[Ian Paterson]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Having re-read your namespace priority idea, I think it has merit.
>
> One challenge I see is synchronization of namespace priorities across 
> resources. We already have this to some extent with standard XMPP 
> presence priorities (oh damn I left my desktop priority as 99 and now 
> I need to use remote controlling to change it there, or make my 
> priority here 100). But with presence priorities at least the numbers 
> are broadcasted to all of your other resources. AFAICT we would not 
> have that with the IQ-based namespace priorities unless there would be 
> some kind of "NP-push".

Yes. And pushes would only be necessary where two resources advertise 
support for the same namespaces.

> The more I ponder forking of headline messages, the more I like that 
> idea, because it also works for plain old chat sessions. Currently 
> Google Talk sends all messages to all resources but they need a fancy 
> coordination protocol to retract messages that are not of interest to 
> other resources. If the initial message in a chat session (or the 
> stanza session negotiation request) is of type headline and all the 
> others are of type "chat" then you get only one message at the other 
> resources (and we could even give that a TTL so the receiving clients 
> at your other resources throw it away after a certain time).

Worth pondering.

- Ian