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

[Adrian Georgescu]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> 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!
>

Do not worry. An alternative is on the way....

Adrian