[Telepathy] Rich presence

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 04/12/2007 am 16:51, ysgrifennodd mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to have a discussion on extended presence support in Telepathy.
> In the current spec, there is a freeform map of presence parameters to arbitrary values, and it's not specified what these parameters and values might in principle carry, or will there be some parameter names with a particular meaning commonly interpreted by Telepathy clients.
> In order to support things like geospatial or civic location as part of contact's presence information, I think we ought to have some common naming conventions and/or data types for corresponding parameters. Specifially in case of geolocation, this is not helped by the fact that presence information is represented differently in various network protocols (e.g. PIDF-LO in SIP and XEP-0080 in XMPP), the GeoClue framework will have its own representation, and all of these except PIDF-LO are really naïve in what kinds of location they can represent (most settle for a GPS-derived latitude-longitude-accuracy tuple, forgetting to specify such trivial matters as the reference geoid).
> Any ideas?

I've written a location interface loosely based on XEP 80 (dictionary with
standardised key names). I'm not really familiar with PIDF-LO. I also
implemented the interface in Gabble. I'll try and put up a spec patch soon.

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Dafydd