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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>hasufell@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Julian Ospald</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>python@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Python</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) is a protocol for transmitting a |
| series of related instant messages in the context of a session. Message |
| sessions are treated like any other media stream when set up via a |
| rendezvous or session creation protocol such as the Session Initiation |
| Protocol (SIP). |
| |
| A series of related instant messages between two or more parties can be |
| viewed as part of a "message session", that is, a conversational exchange |
| of messages with a definite beginning and end. This is in contrast to |
| individual messages each sent independently. Messaging schemes that track |
| only individual messages can be described as "page-mode" messaging, |
| whereas messaging that is part of a "session" with a definite start and |
| end is called "session-mode" messaging. |
| |
| Page-mode messaging is enabled in SIP via the SIP MESSAGE method, as |
| defined in RFC 3428. Session-mode messaging has a number of benefits |
| over page-mode messaging, however, such as explicit rendezvous, tighter |
| integration with other media-types, direct client-to-client operation, |
| and brokered privacy and security. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |