[jdev] resource usage

[Jacques Belissent]

Hi Scott,

Unless you are building a totally controlled and unfederated deployment 
- that is, it is not federated with other jabber deployments, and you 
write the only client that can be used - I would not recommend assigning 
additional semantics to JID resources.

The following jeps may be relevant
- entity capabilities, jep 115
- discovery, jep 30
- geolocation, jep 80
- physical location, jep 112
- PEP, 163

This list is by no means exhaustive.

Happy reading,
Jacques


Scott Cotton wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> First, I'm a jabber newbie.  I've also got a question about resource 
> usage within the
> jabber protocol.  I'm interested in the idea of using resources, or 
> something like it,
> in ways I've not seen before.  
> 
> As a first example, it seems like it might be nice to have one JID have 
> sortof virtual
> modes of interaction, such as "work", "home", "some-hobby", each of 
> which would have
> it's own roster.  I'm aware of the jep on privacy-lists, but this seems 
> a little complex
> (maybe because it doesn't allow changing rosters).
> 
> As a second example, it seems like it might be nice to  use the whole 
> resource
> part of the JID as a reference to a directory space dedicated to the 
> user, maybe even
> with "executable programs" in the sense of jabber-aware programs. 
> 
> Since I'm a jabber newbie, I expect that I'll likely get responses along 
> the lines of
> "see pub-sub" for example 2.  Such responses are heartily welcome.  I'm 
> also interested
> to know if there have been any previous efforts to use the resource part 
> of a JID as
> its own namespace, and if so, what happened to them?
> 
> Best,
> 
> -- 
> scott