[Devel] how to know which messages are for xmpp world?

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 10/06/06 15:39, Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla writes:
>
>  > There could be a flag per user to 
>  > specify if the user has SIP or XMPP account. I see no obvious reason to 
>  > have both, once there will be full gatewaying capabilities. 
>
> the reason may be availability of a good im/p client for a certain
> device.  for some devices, there could be a better sip client and for
> some others, a better (or more popular) xmpp client.
>   
Indeed, this is a good reason, as there are much better XMPP clients for 
im/p, while SIP clients focuses on voice.
>  > The logic 
>  > should check if the user is registered with the server that got the 
>  > message, and if not, forward to the gateway. From SIP side, this can be 
>  > easily achieved with openser, I have no idea about jabber side, if you 
>  > can have some custom routing rules.
>
> if we have a xmpp server integrated in openser, it can very well
> implement the same algorithm.
>
> lets say that xmpp server receives message for a user that exists, but
> is not currently connected to the server.  then this integrated xmpp/sip
> im server could check if the AoR has been registered on the sip side and
> if so, gw the message there.  if the AoR is not registered on either
> side, the integrated server could store the message only once and
> deliver to whatever client (sip or xmpp) registers first.  there would
> be many benefits like that if we had that integrated server.
>   
A integrated server is a good idea, at this moment the focus is on 
gatewaying to peer with other networks. Once is done for voice and 
presence, it seems that is still to work on it :-)

Cheers,
Daniel

> -- juha
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