[sldev] Question: Replacing current group chat with XMPP?

[Edward Artaud]

One question I'd ask is does the announcement of SLim and it's mechanism for
integration mean that it's not necessary for chat in the future to use OGP?
My understanding is that the SLim integration is connecting you to a
separate IM network (the Vivox one) in parallel to your connection to the
grid.  It should be fairly simple to use this same approach to connect to
other IM networks such as Jabber/GTalk if LL is now officially using this
approach to open up IM.  The only challenge would be that some sort of
central SL name to (for example) GTalk name database would need to be
maintained.  If chat integration can occur purely at the viewer level
without all the attendent headaches of going though the grid, then it would
seem such work could happen fairly quickly, which is undoubtedly why LL is
now using this approach with it's newly announced features.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, David M Chess <chess at us.ibm.com> wrote:

>
> Ha, that's what I get for posting before reading.  As I said in a brand-new
> thread recently rather than sensibly posting to this one (because I haven't
> seen it yet), this "what shall we use for group IM in OGP?" discussion
> (which is closely related to a "how can SL group IM be fixed?" discussion)
> has gotten serious enough lately that I've started a Wiki page about it:
>
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Dale_Innis/Group_IM_in_OGP
>
>
>
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