[JDEV] UIDs

[Thomas D. Charron]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:06:07   Scott Robinson wrote:
>One good reason to encode transport information is the problem of address
>domain conflicts and multiple transports.

  domain conflicts can't happen, becouse we're all using DNS 'round here.  the ICQ transport could be on ANY machine, but would need an absolute address via dns..  Aka, 1234567890 at icq.jabber.org.  The shortcut of 1234567890 at icq only resolves via the local connection.  I'm sorry, but I'm not getting you here.

>Example: ICQ has the main ICQ network (we'll call it icq.com because I don't
>know it's real address) however they've also released a "Workgroup"-esque
>server package. If we have transports connecting to both places, or better
>yet, a transport at a different server on my local Jabber network connected
>to a different ICQ network I'd want a way to specify them. 12341234 at ICQ
>should goto the main network. However, how should I specify the alternative
>network? 12341234 at ROBHOME? Hold on, "robhome" is the name of a server here!
>In fact, with the current naming structure we'd have to decide whether a
>transport "name" had priority over a host name.

  The would require different transport names if on the same server.  1234567890 at robhome.jabber.org.  well, robhome would be a silly transport name, but I think you catch my drift..

  Local transport names always have priority over DNS server names..  It looks to see if a local transport by that name is connected, if not, ONLY THEN does it do the DNS lookup..


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Thomas Charron




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