[jdev] discovery services

[Julian Missig]

On 23 Mar 2005, at 16:00, Justin Karneges wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 06:27 am, Julian Missig wrote:
>> On 23 Mar 2005, at 0:31, Justin Karneges wrote:
>>>  3) stanzas need to indicate both the 'to' and the 'from' (since
>>> either
>>> workstation might have multiple users.  yes, I think we should be
>>> forward
>>> thinking here).
>>
>> Ok, this is pretty silly and makes the problem thousands of times
>> harder. DNS-SD lends itself to be used as presence broadcasting, but
>> then you /can't/ use it as presence broadcasting if there are
>> multiple users connected without making /those/ packets insanely
>> complicated too. I don't think that's a problem we should be focusing
>> on at all, because I don't see how it's going to make anything
>> simpler /or/ better.
>
> I don't follow.  Existing client code is going to expect 'from'  
> attributes on
> incoming stanzas.  This means that either 1) the clients have to be  
> hacked to
> not care about 'from' attributes on incoming stanzas or 2) clients  
> need to
> put 'from' attributes on the stanzas they send out.  #2 is not a  
> thousand
> times harder than #1.
>
> Supporting multiple users on a single machine might be a thousand  
> times
> harder, but you're not forced to do that.  A single-user ad-hoc  
> client should
> have no trouble interoperating.
>
>> I think that for now we should focus on things which DNS-SD has
>> proven useful for. Multiple users advertising the same service on one
>> computer is not one of them, and until the DNS-SD people have a good
>> solution for that (if they care about it at all), I don't think we
>> should.
>
> Unless I've misunderstood how zeroconf works, I thought that you'd  
> announce a
> single service regardless of whether or not the service was single- 
> user or
> multiple-user.  Yes, this probably means that for multiple-users  
> you'd need
> an ad-hoc Jabber client daemon.  No, I'm not saying anyone has to  
> implement
> it that way.

Yes, except that the iChat way of doing this makes a *lot* of sense.  
I don't know how you're expecting to to distribute presence using DNS- 
SD, but with iChat, the "service" it's advertising *is* the presence.  
So this is sort of by definition single-user.

Julian

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