Re: [Ietf-message-headers] Re: draft-saintandre-header-pres-00.txt etc.

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

Bruce Lilly wrote:
> On 2008-01-02, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Bruce Lilly wrote:
> 
>>> You're getting decades ahead of yourself -- see below.
>> Apple Mail has had a feature like this for years (based on information 
>> in the address book, not a mail header), so I don't think I'm getting 
>> decades ahead of myself. In fact perhaps I'm several years behind the 
>> market.
> 
> You may have missed my point, which is precisely that using an address book
> or other repository which can be easily updated via VCards (or LDAP, etc.)
> is much more likely to yield results quickly as opposed to convincing
> software authors to support special-purpose code to extract unrelated
> data from message header fields, waiting for such special-purpose code
> to be written, waiting for users to upgrade, etc.

You may have missed the point of the Jabber-ID header, which we defined 
so that the community of Jabber users could experiment with this usage. 
Whether that usage is the most effective way to tie together an email 
identity with a Jabber identity is another issue. We started to define 
the pres and im headers as a more general approach, but it could be that 
neither the general approach nor the specific Jabber approach is needed 
or even desirable.

Thanks for the feedback -- I'll keep it in mind if I ever decide to 
pursue these I-Ds further (which I rather doubt).

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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