[ticker-dev] ticker-3.0 spec

[Ian Lister]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, David Arnold wrote:
>2. Distribution
>
>   Matthew and Martin are keen to have this feature, possibly with
>   standardised semantics for its values.

I have come to the conclusion that I would quite like this in the presence
protocol too. I would like my co-workers to know that I am in some
confidential meeting (hypothetically speaking) but I don't particularly
want to tell the world (I just want them to know I'm in `a' meeting), or
maybe I may not want other organisations to know that I'm off drinking
beer at 10am on Monday (hypothetically speaking).

Thus, I would be able to specify one lot of status information and
restrict it to be organisation local, and another lot for global
distribution. I would send both these notifications in response to
requests and administrative filters would cut out anything org local at my
organisational boundaries (similarly for site boundaries, etc). Nearby
clients would receive both lots of information and take the most local
information as the most useful and display it, while people in other
organisations would receive only the global information.

This would be another example of an attribute that can have a consistent
meaning across several application domains, in this case allowing much
easy federation config (this could even be put in the default config
files).

Sorry if this mail is a bit scattered (it would just be reflecting me atm)
but hopefully I've got my point across. Comments welcome :-)

Ian