Re: draft-ietf-impp-cpim-pidf-06.txt (was: WG Last Call on multip le documents (deadline Jan 12))

Jon Peterson wrote:

> Well, as I suggested, we had a thread then about how <status>, for
example,
> was not specific to IM at all. Nor is the concept of <contact>. Presence
> concerns communications status, and the disposition of a presentity
towards
> particular avenues of communication. I think the concepts of <status> and
> <contact> are equally applicable to voice, video, Internet gaming, and
what
> have you. So I don't think these elements really are specific to IM. In
> other words, I think <status> and <contact> are valid normative concepts
for
> presence.

Status, as defined in PIDF, is *totally* specific to IM, as the only values
for status that are defined are IM specific, i.e. we do not state what they
mean in a different context.

Thanos
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