[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[Joe Hildebrand]

How did Alice find Bob's e-mail address when she got an e-mail account for
the first time? 

-- 
Joe Hildebrand


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dougal Campbell [mailto:dougal at gunters.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:58 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Bart van Bragt wrote:
> 
> > [....]
> >
> > There are already some online indicators available. The 
> problem with 
> > these indicators is that most of them work on a site basis. So you 
> > need one bot/agent in your roster for every site where you want to 
> > display your presence.
> 
> This reminds me of a discussion I had recently about Jabber. 
> One of the things that came up was that a "weakness" of the 
> decentralized nature of Jabber is that there is no central 
> method for locating other Jabber users.
> 
> Let's say that you convince somebody to switch from some 
> other messenger to Jabber. She sets up a jid "alice at foo.com". 
> Then she says "I wonder if my old friend Bob is on Jabber?" 
> She does a JUD search, but doesn't find Bob. Unbeknownst to 
> Alice, Bob *does* have a Jabber account ("bob at bar.net"). But 
> since the JUDs don't talk to each other, she has no easy way 
> to find it, unless she contacts him by other means and asks him.
> 
> Has anyone thought about creating a centralized user 
> directory? There could be an optional s2s component for the 
> server implementations, and perhaps a direct c2s protocol 
> that clients could implement, as well.
> 
> If such a project were started, it would be a good idea to 
> fold presence into it as well.
> 
> --
> Ernest MacDougal Campbell III, MCP+I, MCSE <dougal at gunters.org>
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