[Stox] Communication between STOX-capable and non-STOX-capable entities

Matt Ryan <mryan@getjive.com> Tue, 20 May 2014 02:36 UTC

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Subject: [Stox] Communication between STOX-capable and non-STOX-capable entities
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Should a STOX-capable server be able to communicate with a
non-STOX-capable server, so long as the communication is started by
the STOX-capable server?  Is this among the current goals of the WG?

Sorry if this has been covered - but this particular point remains
unclear to me despite numerous readings through draft-ietf-stox-core
and some of the other supporting drafts.


Let me provide a simple example to explain what I mean.

Suppose an XMPP client initiates a chat to a user that happens to be a
SIP client user.  Per draft-ietf-stox-chat, this request flows through
the XMPP Server which determines that the message is targeted to a SIP
user, and then invokes its own XMPP-to-SIP Gateway to translate the
request to a SIP request and send that request on to the appropriate
SIP server.

So far, the XMPP Server knows that the target user is a SIP user, but
does not know anything about the SIP Server capabilities other than
that it is (presumably) a SIP server.  Importantly, the XMPP Server
does not know whether the SIP Server also supports a SIP-to-XMPP gateway.


This is where my question comes.  Given the described XMPP Server with
a corresponding XMPP-to-SIP gateway, is it meant to be the case that
this XMPP Server should be able to communicate with any valid SIP
server, so long as the conversation is initiated by the XMPP Server?


This is an important point because it has direct impact on several of
our current drafts.


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Matt Ryan
Code Slinger  |  Jive Communications, Inc.
Jive.com  |  mryan@getjive.com
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