[jdev] discovery services

[Julian Missig]

On 22 Mar 2005, at 19:25, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:16:50PM -0500, Julian Missig wrote:
>
>>> Why "_xmpp-client" if you're advertising an XMPP Server?
>>
>> Oh nevermind. I see that stpeter registered xmpp-client and xmpp-
>> server, intending that xmpp-client be the service that XMPP Clients
>> connect *to* while xmpp-server be the server-to-server connection.
>> Kind of odd, but it's what's registered... so nevermind.
>
> Hmm, I see where you're going -- we might want to have a service that
> would enable clients to connect to each other (a la iChat's Rendezvous
> mode or whatever they're going to call it after the Tibco dispute)...

Well, even without that, the service name is supposed to be the  
service you're advertising. The XMPP server is advertising an XMPP  
connection to which a client can connect, which from a server's point  
of view might be "xmpp-client", yes, but from a client's point of  
view, it seems an odd thing to be looking for a "client" service when  
you want to connect to an XMPP Server.

Pedantry, I admit, but it had me confused for a few minutes.


For an official form of something like iChat Rendezvous, we'd need to  
define what exactly an XMPP client<->client protocol should look  
like, which pieces of XMPP are disallowed, and when TCP connections  
should actually take place. All things which I was interested in  
doing back when it looked like something I'd be adding to Gabber one  
day, but which unfortunately I don't think I'll be implementing in  
anything anytime soon...

Julian