[JDEV] JEP-8 User Avatars in Jabber

[David Waite]

The proposal was embedding avatars in presence, which would not scale. 
Hopefully avatars will be reproposed once we have standardized on a 
discovery mechanism and publish/subscribe mechanism - its an interesting 
feature for IM.

-David Waite

Klaus H. Wolf wrote:

>Great,
>
>what does it mean?
>"The proposal was bad" or "we do not need avatars". 
>Any other avatar developments?
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>Dr. Klaus H. Wolf
>bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG
>http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw
>+49 (0721) 16108 75
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
>>Julian Missig
>>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 5:30 PM
>>To: jdev at jabber.org
>>Subject: Re: [JDEV] JEP-8 User Avatars in Jabber
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>>Despite what the "Status" field says, JEP-0008 was rejected.
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>>On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:16, Klaus H. Wolf wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>is JEP-8 still considered active?
>>>Is it worth discussing and worth as a guideline?
>>>
>>>If yes, here the comment:
>>>- JEP-8 proposes 2 methods for retrieving the avatar data: 
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>>client-client and
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>>>client-storage
>>>- it prefers client-client
>>>- I discovered the following behaviour: if the client changes 
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>>the avatar,
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>>>then many other clients request the new data, and the server 
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>>throttles the
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>>>connection because of e.g. 10 x 5 KB.
>>>
>>>Solution:
>>>- prefer client-storage over client-client.
>>>- if the client gets a request then it knows it must submit to 
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>>the storage
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>>>to avoid further requests.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>--
>>>Dr. Klaus H. Wolf
>>>bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG
>>>http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw
>>>+49 (0721) 16108 75
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>>>
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