Re: [xmpp] 3921bis: delivery of messages addressed to bare JIDs

[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>]

On 1/29/10 6:53 AM, Waqas Hussain wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im
> <mailto:stpeter at stpeter.im>> wrote:
> 
>     Currently some XMPP services broadcast messages addressed to a bare JID
>     instead of delivering those messages only to the highest-priority
>     resource(s). The highest-priority rule is a legacy of the original
>     jabberd 1.x codebase and I don't see a strong reason to forbid other
>     message delivery styles. Therefore I propose a change to Section 8.3.1.1
>     of 3921bis.
> 
> 
> On further consideration, the proposed text is more restricting than the
> existing text.
> 
> I don't see a strong reason to forbid other message delivery styles, but
> the highest-priority rule is a SHOULD, not a MUST, so other message
> delivery styles are not forbidden, just this one is recommended. The
> proposed change seems to require broadcast (first) or priority based
> delivery (second), 

There is no order of preference here.

> which seems like the wrong thing to do. It's a
> "MUST", which does effectively forbid any other message delivery styles
> except those two.

What other styles do you have in mind?

I'm not opposed to allowing other styles (so make broadcast or
presence-based delivery SHOULD), but those are the only two styles I've
ever seen. And we definitely want to explicitly mention the broadcast style.

/psa

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