Re: [xmpp] 3921bis: probe + unavailable

[Waqas Hussain <waqas20 at gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:

a. My sense of existing implementations is that people would prefer a
definitive answer to the probe (i.e., <presence type='unavailable'/>).
Therefore I would like to change "SHOULD reply with unavailable but MAY
opt to not reply at all" to "MUST reply with unavailable".

+1.

There's another thing I was wondering about:

For presence probes, "The value of the 'from' address MUST be the full JID <user at domain/resource> of the user and the value of the 'to' address MUST be the bare JID <contact at domain> of the contact to which the user is subscribed."

Why MUST those JIDs be that way? I can think of valid cases where a bare JID may wish to probe the presence of a full JID.

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Waqas Hussain