[ticker-dev] presence protocol publication

[Ian Lister]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, David Arnold wrote:
>i personally find the semantics of the Status field confusing, and
>have suggested in the past that it be split and clarified, but i
>wasn't able to convince people ;-)

Historically I have been guilty of not paying much attention to the
presence protocol, but people may have noticed I've been taking a bit more
interest recently :-)

Could you point me to your proposal(s), David? (or reiterate them if you
prefer). I would be keen to look at possible changes to the Status
field...

>it is not limited to these example, but, according to the latest draft
>it supports one other value -- "coffee", and any different value will
>be treated by programs as `falling between "unavailable" and
>"offline"', which is where "coffee" is as well (see section 3.8 of
>draft 0.4.1 of the spec).

Ugh - that seems a bit bogus to me :-/

(I know, I know, sorry, I should have piped up earlier)

Ian