[OGo-Discuss] Bug 1852: support creation of xmpp: field types in OGo

[Adam Tauno Williams]

http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1852

This seems useful, and overdue;  it has come up on the mailing list
before although I can't seem to find the thread.  It also seems related
to Bug#1274

http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1274

Outlook provides an IM address field and this is stored in the
im_address field of the person table.  But it doesn't seem to provide
any way to specify what kind of IM service is being used;  so I like the
Bug#1852 solution better.

Question #1) Is there any kind of policy/philosophy with regard to
adding new types of extended attributes? 

Question #2) If the Bug#1852 solution is used perhaps we should consider
created an extended attribute type of each of the *major* IM service
types so a corresponding URL can be generated.  XMPP, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ),
MSN, SIP, YMSG (Yahoo) and Skype? (ex types 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25?
Can each of these services be referenced via URL?  

As mentioned in the bug, XMPP URLs are described in
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4622.txt