[jdev] Gaim and gnomemeeting using jabber

PUYDT Julien julien.puydt at laposte.net
Tue Nov 30 13:56:55 CST 2004


Le mardi 30 novembre 2004 à 15:34 +0000, Richard Dobson a écrit :
> > No: when I'm DnD for IM, then certainly I'm DnD for VoIP (also known as
> > "away"). But when I'm in a voip call, I'm certainly still able to read
> > IM messages: this is a presence information, and it can't be guessed
> > from the IM presence.
> 
> Ah but the presence stanza is intended to indicate your IM presence not your 
> phone presence if that is something separate, if you really do need to 
> express your VoIP presence info separately then you must keep it separate 
> from the IM presence by not using the <presence/> stanza, what you need to 
> look at using is pubsub instead.

Gaim puts "jabber:x:delay" information in presence... why couldn't it
put a voip-uri?

> Overall tho I am not sure you are quite understanding things correctly, the 
> presence stanza is not intended to communicate anything other than your IM 
> presence, if you want to express VoIP presence as something different from 
> the IM presence it must be carried using pubsub just as other protocols for 
> communicating such things user mood have done (these protocols are 
> collectively known as extended presence). Also "jabber:x:oob" is not 
> intended to communicate anything other than a URI which in the case of VoIP 
> URI's will always be an invitation to the indicated VoIP session, it cannot 
> be used to indicate a user is currently in a call, and in any case 
> indicating that a user is in a VoIP call using a VoIP URI which is received 
> by people that are not in the call is a potensial security hole as only 
> people actually in the call should ever have that information.

I don't see where the security issue is... all of your contacts can send
you messages anytime they want and you don't consider it a security
issue ; but allowing the same contacts to call you is one?!

I'm studying the pubsub jep so I can't comment about it yet.

JP




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