[JDEV] Annotating user's presence with extra information

[Verizon]

I'm just lurking here but thought I might contribute.  I think it is
important to keep the base Jabber protocol lean and clean.  Think of it as
transport and delivery with presence and extend it however you need with
custom messages wrapped into the message element.  Have your specialized
client do whatever it wants within that space.  You might simply define a
special message with a subject of LOCATION and the specifics packed into the
message element that gets sent to whoever needs to know. Nothing else gets
unduly burdened and your need gets met.

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Minsky" <hqm at ai.mit.edu>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: [JDEV] Annotating user's presence with extra information


>
> 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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