[Wocky] SIPB Jabber

[Timothy G. Abbott]

Hello,

 	Some SIPB people were planning on working on adding features to 
jabberd that people felt were missing in the current implementation being 
worked on by IS&T.  In particular, people have been talking about the 
following problems (I have not personally verified all of these, so some 
of them are probably rumor.):

 	- the lack of a useful "instance" feature

 	- the lack of something to fill the role of owl (a text-based 
client that can reasonably thread several classes)

 	- the fact that one does not seem to be able to usefully log in 
from more than one place at once.  (currently, it seems to send to the 
most recent place you sent from)

 	- the fact that jabber conferences don't really work like zephyr 
classes: in particular, they don't provide an opportunity for anonymous 
presence.  It should in principle be possible to have conferences working 
both ways, possibly running on different servers/ports.

 	- there doesn't seem to be support for inauthentic sending, or 
logging in with a weird kerberos principal (such as one might want for 
sending authentically as a daemon).

 	We would like to know which of these issues are likely to be 
receiving active development within IS&T before a release.  We don't want 
to step on the toes of IS&T developers, but a lot of people seem to want 
these features, and if there is a coherent set of issues that IS&T is 
unlikely to work on in the future, then we would be happy to direct our 
efforts towards those.  Thanks,

 	-Tim Abbott
 	for the SIPB Jabber effort