Re: [XCON] draft on MSRP conferencing

[Aki Niemi <aki.niemi at nokia.com>]

Hi Adam,

I can understand the confusion, especially since we've been bashing our 
heads together in XCON for a long time in an effort to understand the 
difference (or if there is one) between a private message and a sidebar.

However, here is our concrete proposal for the former. I.e., a mechanism 
that allows a participant of a multiparty MSRP session to send a 
*single* message to a subset of the roster, rather than the entire chat 
room. This mechanism is completely orthogonal to the XCON sidebar 
mechanism, in fact, one could send a DISTSEND method in a sidebar as well.

Our aim is to make multiparty MSRP as feature-rich as some of its 
competition, such as MS Netmeeting and IRC for example -- both of which 
provide this capability.

Cheers,
Aki

ext Adam Roach wrote:
> I'm more than a little confused about the motivation to use a mechanism 
> for sidebars ("DISTSEND") that varies from the sidebar mechanisms that 
> XCON will be developing.
>
> The key benefit of session-oriented media that I have been selling 
> people on is that it is treated identically to that of other media (e.g. 
> voice and video). Once you start defining alternate or multiple ways to 
> do things, such as sidebars, then this benefit starts to disintegrate.
>
> /a
>
> Miguel Garcia wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > Aki and me had made a new revision of a draft that discusses how to do 
> > conferences with MSRP. We propose to define a new MSRP method and a 
> > couple of new headers, in addition to a number of conventions.
> >
> > Although the draft is intended to reach the SIMPLE mailing list, due 
> > to the proposed extensions to MSRP, the subject also falls in the 
> > scope of XCON, and we would be happy to discuss it here as well.
> >
> > The draft should be officially published soon. In the meantime you can 
> > download a copy from (html and txt):
> >
> > http://people.nokia.net/~miguel/drafts/draft-niemi-simple-chat-02.html
> > http://people.nokia.net/~miguel/drafts/draft-niemi-simple-chat-02.txt
> >
> > Comments are welcome.
> >
> > - Miguel

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