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Re: [xmpp] updated bis drafts



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On 11/2/09 11:42 AM, Tory Patnoe wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 01:58 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> As to whether the server needs to deliver inbound presence subscription
>> stanzas (subscribed, unsubscribe, unsubscribed), my reasoning is that if
>> the server does not deliver them to the client then the client has no
>> way to tell whether the roster push was generated by another resource or
>> triggered by the contact.
>>    
> 
> Would it not be better to put that information in the roster-push itself?
> 
> Perhaps with a copy of the triggering stanza as a sub-element to the
> roster push. That way client writers would not have to use two stanzas
> to trigger an event but look for a single stanza in the roster push
> while looking for extra details.
> 
> If the "double" stanza is preferred then I believe the presence stanza
> MUST be delivered _before_ the roster push.

The double stanza is the way things have been specified since 1999. If
we define a new roster protocol (a hot topic of discussion a few months
ago), we'd add this feature to that protocol rather than force it into
the old protocol.

Peter

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