Re: SIMPLE chat: Internationalization and normalization of nicknames

Hi,

>> 
>> 1) A resource part identifies something. That makes uniqueness and
>> comparisons fairly important. OTOH, a nickname is really for human
>> display purposes. We still need to be able to compare them for
>> reservations to work. And the human readability part means we should
>> at least mention character confusion issues.
> 
> In the chatroom context, XMPP resourceparts are mostly used for display
> purposes but also for some authorization decisions (e.g., we can kick
> people based on their nickname). As far as I understand it, the uses are
> really quite similar in XMPP chatrooms and SIMPLE chatrooms.
> 
>> 2) The 6122bis resource parts live inside URIs, while  simple-chat
>> nicknames are just strings.
> 
> Well, we don't really use URIs in XMPP. Probably you mean JIDs
> (JabberIDs). In that case, yes, they are used sometimes for addressing
> in XMPP chatrooms (e.g., to send a private message to another occupant).
> 

My understanding is that a full JID is comparable with a SIP GRUU, at least from the routing perspective. I'm working on a SIP-XMPP gateway at the moment and this is the translation I'm currently applying :-)


Regards,

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Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
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