Re: question about presence service

Marshall Rose <[email protected]> Fri, 3 May 2002 09:32:35 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.apex
Organization Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  I'd agree, but section 3 ("Format of Presence Entries") says:
>   "Each administrative domain is responsible for maintaining a 'presence
> entry' for each of its endpoints (regardless whether those endpoints are
> currently attached to the relaying mesh."
> 
> So, if someone subscribes to receive the presence information for an
> endpoint without a presence entry, what should be the result?  Section
> 4.2 has no provision for what to do about endpoints without presence
> entries.

hmmm. in re-reading the spec, i think that your original solution is the
right one: put one tuple in the entry and have the availableUntil
attribute refer to a past date/time.

/mtr