[Bug 23151] Chan.I. Room — properties of chatrooms and chatroom-like constructs

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23151

--- Comment #22 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-11-08 08:29:52 PST ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> But I also see a need in opaque identification of channels that are not typical
> "rooms", e.g. a one-to-one cellular call in a handover. Doesn't the combination
> of TargetHandleType = Handle_Type_None and TargetID = "opaque_id" violate
> earlier assumptions about these properties?

Right, that's not allowed - Handle_Type_None means the channel isn't
identifiable by its TargetID, so it's not consistent with having a non-empty
TargetID.

Another option might be an opaque ConversationID like I proposed in Bug #26838.
I suppose the semantic distinction here (in my mind, at least) is that
TargetHandle, TargetHandleType and TargetID point to a "thing" (either a
contact or a room) that is the other participant in this conversation, whereas
ConversationID identifies the conversation itself.

To be honest I don't think I understand the requirements for the handover case
you describe, and I suspect that we're solving different problems.

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