[OpenSIPS-Users] [XCAP] What does EyeBeam use XCAP for?

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

2009/7/9 Adrian Georgescu <ag at ag-projects.com>:
> You may extend a resource list with any field you want. The schema is
> extensible is not fixed. In this respect indeed you will end up with
> different implementations that store different fields in different ways.
>
> Believe it or not is what vendors pushed IETF to do, so that they can lock
> in their customers while using the open standards.

:(


> A practical example. For instance you cannot re-use the contact list built
> by Eybeam easily in another client. While is possible to export it somehow,
> the opposite is impossible. A resource list composed by other client that
> does not have a particular hash value calculated by Eybeam itself will not
> be loaded by Eyebeam even if the data is compatible with the resource-list
> format.

This is really sad!

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>