RE: [Simple] niemi-simple-chat

["Cullen Jennings" <fluffy at cisco.com>]

Ok, as dean says, there are many ways to skin a cat. I guese an approach
that mangled the URI would be my least favorite way to skin this one.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aki Niemi [mailto:aki.niemi at nokia.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 4:37 PM
> To: ext Cullen Jennings
> Cc: Simple WG
> Subject: Re: [Simple] niemi-simple-chat
>
> Hi Cullen,
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
> ext Cullen Jennings wrote:
> > Just and idle thought that I suspect has been discussed in
> the past...
> >
> > If the CPIM To header was used to carry the names (or
> nicknames) of all the
> > desired recipients of the message, could we avoid adding a
> new method? Not
> > sure this is a good idea but what I am trying to achieve is to allow
> > baseline MSRP clients that don't understand the extensions
> in the "chat
> > specification" to be able to participate in a chat session
> where it just
> > looks like a robot. Clients that did understand chat would
> be able to do the
> > additional functionality of targeting messages at just a
> subset of the
> > users.
>
> The previous version actually talked about this; all messages
> sent from
> the MSRP switch/mixer were SENDs. That way non-chat-aware
> clients could
> render them in the normal manner.
>
> However, I think there is a privacy aspect to this. Replying
> to a note
> that was originally only supposed to be seen by a subset
> would be bad,
> so I think there would have to be some way to avoid that. The
> new method
> solves this, as those clients that don't support the method
> would reject
> the messages.
>
> Another option could be a CPIM Require token for this,
> althogh I suspect
> it isn't widely supported. That's why a new method might
> stand a better
> chance of avoiding the information leakage.
>
> Then there are many other, non-protocol means to solve the privacy
> issue, like prepending some [private] token to CPIM Subject,
> etc. So I'm
> open to any solution here that works, really.
>
> Cheers,
> Aki
> >
> > Cullen
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Simple mailing list
> > Simple at ietf.org
> > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple
> >
>


_______________________________________________
Simple mailing list
Simple at ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple