Generic Alerts

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Generic Alerts A protocol for generic alerts (similar to .NET Alerts service). &LEGALNOTICE; 0089 Deferred Standards Track Standards None None None Not yet assigned Richard Dobson richard@dobson-i.net richard@dobson-i.net 0.2 2003-05-16 red Changed element from x to alert. 0.1 2003-05-12 red Initial version.

Generic Alerts is a way to extend headlines to allow functionality similar to .NET Alerts.

The motivations for this document are:

To allow services to send alerts to users, e.g. like an auction notifying you when you are outbid or that you have won

Generic Alerts extend headline messages to specify such things as a logo (32x32 png) and url to goto when the alert is clicked:

Auction Alert You have been outbid! http://www.auction.com/alert.png http://www.auction.com/item?1292192 ]]>

The following guidelines may assist client developers.

The existance of an alert element of the namespace 'http://jabber.org/protocol/alert' means this is an alert and not a normal headline.
Alerts should be displayed differently, possibly in toast popups.
The logo is an optional graphic to display representing the service being alerted on, e.g. ebay logo.
When clicked on the users web browser will be opened to the specified url.

None.

No IANA interaction required.

The ®ISTRAR; will need to register the new namespace of "http://jabber.org/protocol/alert".