[Standards] ProtoXEP: Game Support

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Torsten Grote wrote:
> Michal 'vorner' Vaner said the following on 01/12/2008 11:13 AM: 
>> Discovering:
>> Wouldn't it make sense use service disco to get supported/ongoing games
>> too? (add items supported-games and ongoing-games to item list, and their
>> sub-lists as games, for example)
>>
>> It seems to me defining new protocol for discovering is not needed, if
>> there is a generic one.
> 
> I used a separate mechanism for discovering individual games because
> there may be hundreds of games a client supports and this would blow up
> a disco response considerably.

If you really expect a client to support hundreds of games (!), I think 
it would be best to offer each game as an item at a special disco node. 
Then another user can page through the items and see if one matches, use 
XEP-0059 to page through the items, etc.

Peter


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