[JDEV] conferencing with all services - distributed chat room

[Fabien Ninoles]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:37:57AM +0530, Ashvil wrote:
> From: "Fabien Ninoles" <fabien at Nightbird.Dynamic.TZoNE.ORG>
> > I can see three different kinds of "room proxy".
> 
> Can this concept be extended so that a jabber chat room is spread across
> multiple Jabber servers like an IRC channel. That would save on bandwidth,
> as messages would not have to be replicated. It will be inline with the
> distributed architecture that Jabber has (ie. Lot of small servers around
> the world, rather then a huge centrally controlled big server).

Yes, it's possible, however, I'm not sure of the benefits.  But for me,
is mostly to invite a room to the conference.  Some sorts of nick
negociation is then necessary, maybe simply by adding a suffix like
nickname at foreign_room or maybe more complicate.  Some special
requirements are required for those "special guest" like when asking for
the list of users, or things like that.  It would be cool to have a
special options so that we can only query the local room or query
invited room...  We are near to the concept of MUD rooms now ;).

> This way all the users can join a local chat room which has a proxy to the
> main chat room on a different server. Is this one of the requirements for
> the conferencing group.

I'm not sure I understand the last sentence but I don't think that it
anything we discuss until then is a requirements for the conferencing
service.

> 
> Regards,
> Ashvil
> 

Later,
Fabien

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