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Foolish, I know, but I'll get stale if I do nothing but email. This week I are been mostly writing a draft proposal to be given to my senior management team, suggesting that I should implement a Jabber service for Cambridge University. All comments and suggestions welcome!

http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/jabber/proposal.txt

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From:

bjh21.livejournal.com

I observe that you're using a trivial mapping between CRSid and JID, with the consequence that it will be practically impossible for people to suppress their JID in the directory. You at least need to explain why this isn't a problem.

From:

fanf

There are several paragraphs on Jabber's privacy mechanisms. Constructing email addresses from CRSIDs isn't a problem, so I don't see why it would be for Jabber. In any case, the directory doesn't currently have a slot for people's IM IDs.