[jdev] Re: JIDs in chat rooms (Avatar and other user info)

[Peter Saint-Andre]

In article <11D121AB355B69448D3A9F2132D2A3AA4201B4 at niobe.BlueHands.de>,
 "Heiner Wolf" <wolf at bluehands.de> wrote:

> > > What about sending a pubsub node address in the presence 
> > you sent to the
> > > room?
> 
> Yes, a pubsub address in the <presence/> is a solution. For the deployment I 
> have to wait until pubsub is available in the wild though.

Keep poking ralphm about Idavoll:

http://idavoll.jabberstudio.org/

> Question to mu-conf people: 
> The really anonymous solution would be if the conf component would proxy for 
> the user's server. Would it be possible that MUC answers on behalf of the 
> user's server. So that the requesting client could treat the room-JID of the 
> user like a real JID and the MUC translates JIDs and proxies user data. 

Given that I might join room at conference.example.com but my real JID is 
actually stpeter at jabber.org, I don't see how conference.example.com is 
going to proxy for jabber.org -- but maybe I don't understand your 
suggestion.

/psa