[JDEV] Idea.

[David Waite]

1) while you could use this so that other people would not need to
authenticate against you at the new host, this would not help in
authenticating you with them at the new host - any automation of this on
the server with a 'roster transfer' feature would really destroy any sense
of security we may have been shooting for

2) people will not have your new address on there list, they will only
have your old address - so other people will need to have their rosters
changed to have you at the new address -again a really bad idea to do
automatically (very risky behavior security-wise).

3) transports are stored as jid's dependant on the transport server - so
moving over to jabber.com from jabber.org, you would still have your users
from ICQ being 8675329 at icq.jabber.org, and would not use the new transport
server. There isn't really a waay to transfer these addresses between
users currently, since there is both an initial registration (with ICQ or
whatever) and a translation of service addresses required.

-David Waite

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Paul McNeely wrote:

> Uhm, Guys, how about a contact list import feature for between servers. I
> found this kind of needed when I wasn't really paying attention and went to
> jabber.com instaed of .org, downloaded ad register some contacts on that
> server, its nice an all but I needed them on jabber.org since .com doesn't
> have the yahoo transport. It would be neat if I could just issue a command,
> type in the server, unsername and password and the two server would
> communicate allowing me to transfer or synchronize my contact lists without
> the need to rerequest authorization.
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