[JDEV] Protocl proposal "priority bit"

[Jeremie]

This is definately a possibility(and was originally something SMTP was
supposed to do but it never came through).  What's cool, is that with the
way the Jabber transport/server currently works, this is completly up to
the module, so it can be controlled externally to the server.

Fun fun!

Jer

On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 qbradley at csc.UVic.CA wrote:

> 
> Thomas Charron's idea about sending files as Jabber messages has given me
> an idea that might be useful generally.
> 
> Perhaps there should be an attribute or tag that acts like a priority bit,
> like in ATM packets.  High priority packets would behave as already
> described.  Low priority packets would behave differently in one
> circumstance.  
> 
> If a low priority packet gets to its destination server, and finds the
> user in question is not logged in, the packet is thrown away.
> 
> This would be great for "file transfer" packets.. maybe 50 of them have
> already been sent when a user disconnects.  It is probably not desireable
> for them all to hang around on the server until the user reconnections.
> Instead the transfer should be resumed later.
> 
> There is another use of the packet.  Messages which are time limited.
> Perhaps I send a message to my coworker "We are leaving for lunch right
> now".  I don't want him to get it an hour later.  Either they should get
> it right away or not at all.  Whether anyone would ever make use of such a
> feature or not depends on how easy it was, a user interface issue.
> 
> Anyway, ramble ramble...  anyone else think it is an idea with merit?
> 
> Quetzalcoatl Bradley
> qbradley at csc.uvic.ca
> 
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