[Standards] XEP-0174: multiple JIDs

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>> That said. What's the use-case for announcing multiple e-mail 
>> address/jid's?
>> For vcard like purposes it would be better to request a real one via 
>> xmpp i
>> guess, so you can have more complete information (work/private/whater 
>> jid/mail)
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what the use case is. People have multiple JIDs or 
> screen names or email addresses and it would be nice to advertise them all?

The use cases I've heard about revolve around presence-enabling email 
programs and contact books and such. So for example your instance of 
Thunderbird could show a little presence icon next to mail from 
stpeter at jabber.org if I advertise a TXT record with that address. But I 
could have multiple email addresses so you might want to presence-enable 
them all.

Naturally, there is absolutely no control over what people can publish 
in their TXT records, so this kind of information is easily poisoned 
(I'll add a security consideration about that to the next version of the 
spec). But that's true whether you advertise one email address / JID or 
more than one.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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