[Standards] NEW: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

[Olivier Goffart]

Hello.

I was thinking about that metacontact spec.

What about multi-protocols clients ?
Where should they store metacontact info about legacy accounts ?

I say that because metacontacts are specially usefull for multi-protocols 
client,   and the XEP doesn't allow to group contact from different protocols 
into metacontacts.

Anyway, I have no good idea to solve that problem.
maybe
<extern protocol="msn" contactid="mike at msn.com" tag="3F35F323" />
but we will have synchronisations problems et all 

The correct solution would be to store that directly on the legacy server, but 
not all protocols allows to store private info. (or maybe using hacks i don't 
know)
In this case, the XEP could suggest how to store and retrieve metacontact 
information for others protocols

-- 
Olivier


Le mardi 10 avril 2007, XMPP Extensions Editor a écrit :
> Version 0.1 of XEP-0209 (Metacontacts) has been released.
>
> Abstract: This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for defining
> metacontacts and grouping member JIDs.
>
> Changelog: Initial published version. (psa)
>
> CVS Diff: N/A
>
> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0209.html


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