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It would be really nice if ECF had support for the iChat (aka link-local messaging, or XEP 174) protocol. It already uses jmdns for multicast discovery, and supports xmpp, so this can't really be too far off.
ECF does support bonjour/rendevous now (discovery API implementation), and XMPP as well. If I'm not reading the XEP 174 incorrectly, I think that creating a service ID with type "_presence._tcp.local." with the discovery API would essentially do the trick. Max is this what you are looking for? I'm adding helpwanted to the keywords, as although this would be/is very cool I'm not sure whether we'll have resources to address immediately.
Marking as 'helpwanted'.
Yes, I do believe this is what I am looking for. Unfortunately I have no actual implementation experience with XEP 174, but AFAIK this would make it iChat compatible (which is what I am looking for). The things to be done here: - advertise yourself as a service. For this a user should be able to specify a name to be used. - listen to other advertisements, and display them as possible chatpartners. - support sending messages to locally discovered partners, using the slightly modified local chat protocol. I will, of course, volunteer to test. For the moment, I cannot volunteer implementation time, although this may change in the future.
FYI with a Mac OS X iChat client, I get: bigmac[~] dns-sd -B _presence Browsing for _presence._tcp Timestamp A/R Flags if Domain Service Type Instance Name 14:15:19.620 Add 2 4 local. _presence._tcp. alex@bigmac-3 bigmac[~] dns-sd -L alex@bigmac-3 _presence._tcp. local. Lookup alex@bigmac-3._presence._tcp..local. 14:15:58.667 alex@bigmac-3._presence._tcp.local. can be reached at bigmac-3.local.:49159 txtvers=1 aim=alexanderblewitt port.p2pj=49159 status=avail 1st=Alex jid=alex.blewitt@gmail.com email=alex.blewitt@gmail.com last=Blewitt AIM=alexanderblewitt vc=SDCURA!XN ext=5I phsh=c61a5df2c0f4e6addfaa6bbf69c60a5295c22860 The keys are described here: http://xmpp.org/registrar/linklocal.html The point is that the port (49159) should be a XMPP stream, which there's probably the APIs to already do, right? So this is just about setting up an ECF server/client that will do that. Unfortunately, I don't have enough ECF nous to know how to do this, but if there's a noddy ECF example (or test case) that someone can point me in the direction of, as well as the way in which the ECF bonjour stuff works, I'll have a go.
resolving as wontfix. If resources become available to do this, please reopen.
