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



On 2/1/10 10:28 AM, Mike Mahoney wrote:
>>> Missing IMs because you accidentally left yourself logged in on
>>> another
>>> machine, or because Client X has different default priority settings
>>> than Client Y is inconvenient, annoying and prone to error.
> 
> This is true for the typical human-user case of IM clients, but for other
> XMPP use cases the delivery to a specific prioritized resource could be
> important.
> 
>>  
>>  This could be fixed by specifying that the default priority should be
>>  0. Why kill a feature just because a few users don't use it? It could
>>  be just hidden from them and those who want to use it can still use
>>  it. I would not want to use a server that delivers my messages to all
>>  resources.
>>  
> 
> +1 to specifying a default of 0. 

The default is effectively zero, but that's not specified in the schema.
Easy enough to fix.

> There was some talk on JDev recently about
> binding multiple resources on one stream.  

Right, we removed that proposed behavior from 3920bis. :)

> In those cases it would make a
> lot of sense to use priorities and deliver appropriately.

And in other cases, too.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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