[jdev] Gaim and gnomemeeting using jabber

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:34:48 -0000, Richard Dobson <richard at dobson-i.net>  
wrote:

>> I'm studying the pubsub jep so I can't comment about it yet.
>
> If you really are intent on doing this then using pubsub is your only  
> option if you want your proposal standardised, I dont see it ever being  
> passed by the council if you do it as a presence extension, and I doubt  
> the gaim folks would accept any implementation of it into their main  
> codebase if it has been rejected by the council.

This is not a fair comment. I've had an offlist discussion about this and  
suggested some alternatives such as JEP 115 or vcard-temp (VCARDS are used  
for this purpose in other applications) that could use existing standards.  
Wether you need pubsub for this or not heavily depends on how feature  
laden you want to make this proposal. If it is the authors intention just  
to publish a SIP uri, and potentially some availability data then IMHO  
PubSub is definatly overkill.

In any case, it's premature to say the council will not expect anything  
without PubSub in it (come on, we all like PubSub but hardly *that* much :)