[JDEV] Protocal Specifier on jabber addresses; creation of JUPLs

[David Waite]

The other issue is that the actual creator of the protocol did not 
define the URI syntax. Not being the creators, we do not have the 
ability to define one for them

-David Waite

Julian Missig wrote:

> The problem I have with treating communication with other instant 
> messaging systems as other protocols is that, well, they're not. We're 
> still speaking Jabber. We're just speaking jabber to a server module 
> which then translates it. We'd have to have an infinite number of 
> protocol specifiers for the infinite possibility of server modules.
>
> What happens when you're already in a multi-protocol environment? In 
> mozilla (with proper hacks), if I want to do something over jabber, 
> then it's jabber:user at server/resource. What happens when I want to 
> send something over jabber to msn? jabber:msn:user at server/resource is 
> not a valid URI. That URI means username msn with password user over 
> protocol jabber. Gabber already interprets jabber: as separate from 
> mailto: for jabberids vs email addresses... and I believe jabber: is 
> the proper protocol specifier for Jabber.
>
> It would be nice to be able to specify that something is using a 
> certain server module in the jabberid itself, but using a protocol 
> specifier is not the solution.
>
>
> Julian