[JDEV] jabber extensions available for handling location information

[Jeremy Nickurak]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:46, Arjan Peddemors wrote:
> We had two main reasons for having the location element at the 
> same level as the presence element. First, we are considering 
> presence and location (and many other types of information) as
> independent parameters that define the context of a user (or
> other non-human entity).  Second, we want the user to control
> the distribution of his/her context information in a flexible
> manner: the user must be able to allow subscription to this
> information an a per-item basis. This means that subscription
> to presence and location, although essentially based on the
> same mechanism, is completely independent.

Personally, I'm curious why these goals couldn't be fit into a properly
namespaced child element of the message packet. Could you try to
elaborate on this some?
-- 
Jeremy Nickurak <atrus at jabber.spam.rifetech.com>