[ticker-dev] presence protocol publication

[David Arnold]

-->"Ian" == Ian Lister <ilister at dstc.edu.au> writes:

  Ian> Could you point me to your proposal(s), David? (or reiterate
  Ian> them if you prefer). I would be keen to look at possible
  Ian> changes to the Status field...

see the archives of ticker-dev from last november

  http://elvin.dstc.com/ListArchive/ticker-dev/archive/2001/11/

but, in summary, Status seems to have elements of multiple different
properties munged into a single field.  for example

- activity / idleness ("online" / "unavailable?")
- one time notification of client shutdown ("offline")
- specific activity ("coffee")
- explicit statement of unavailability ("unavailable")

i hadn't ever proposed something i was happy with (from memory), but
it still troubles me.





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