[JDEV] Annotating user's presence with extra information

[Thomas Muldowney]

It's generally considered bad to overload <presence>.  This is because
it is the only current element that the server rebroadcasts.  For people
with large rosters this can be a lot of information the server then has
to push out.  If there is a strong technical reason that it needs to be
in <presence> I would suspect you would be interested in the current
discussion about pubsub in Jabber.  You can find more on the standards
jig mailing list.  Does that help you find a better fit?

--temas


On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 11:17, Henry Minsky wrote:
> 
> I am working on a project where we have a server that is tracking users' 
> locations
> via various technologies, and recording them in a realtime database.
> 
> I would like to be able to annotate each jabber user on the server with
> some information about their physical location. This information would most 
> likely be
> retrieved in the presence information for each user, although might there
> be some better place to put it, such as a new separate iq query?
> 
> Note that the clients themselves do not necessarily know their own locations,
> that information is derived on the server, so I need my "location server" to
> somehow inject the location information for each user into the jabber
> server, where it can be accessed by custom clients, or perhaps also stuffed
> into the english-readable status strings, for backward compatibility with 
> existing
> clients.
> 
> Anyone else working on something like this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Henry Minsky
> 
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