draft-riikonen-presence-attrs-00.txt

[Pekka R. <pri...@ik...>]

A new Internet Draft defining User Online Presence and Information
Attributes is available, and has been submitted to the IETF.

This draft is not officially part of SILC protocol specification, however
it is used by the SILC.  I am submitting it at the same time submitting
the new SILC drafts.  The development of this draft is independent from
the SILC development.

o User Online Presence and Information Attributes

  http://silcnet.org/docs/draft-riikonen-presence-attrs-00.txt

  Abstract

   This document defines set of attributes that can represent the online
   user's presence in a network, and to provide general information about
   the user.  The purpose is to provide a generic mechanism to share
   online presence and status, and general information about the user
   to be used in several kind of network protocols and applications.
   These attributes could be used by for example chat and conferencing
   protocols (such as Instant Message protocols), network games, and
   other similar network protocols and applications that has online
   users in a network.

This draft is initial submission.

	Pekka
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 Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
 Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC)       http://silcnet.org/