XMPP Presense
Presense is the technology allowing you choose what informations of your network availability you want to share. This is happening by subscription “handshake” To request someone’s presence you send him a subscruption request: <presence from="george@im.company.org" to="mary@im.company.org" type="subscribe" /> The recepient can approve it or denied by sending presence stanza of type subscribed or unsubscribed: <presence from="mary@im.company.org" to="george@im.company.org" type="subscribed" /> This is bidirectional process. So the recepient also send you a subscription request and you also can subscrube or unsubscrbe to it....