Hello, [Standards list: Please Cc me, as I'm not subscribed to this list.]
Excuse me if this was already discussed. According to RFC 3921, section 2.2.1, it is not allowed to send presence stanzas with a type="available" attribute. Such a value, however, seems to be widely used in effective code and in documentation, including on documentation referenced or hosted at xmpp.org. I see several possible responses to this fact: 1. Modify existing documentation and implementations to a more strict behavior that would treat values not mentionned in RFC 3921 as illegal. 2. Add 'available' as a legal type for presence stanzas in future replacements of RFC 3921. 3. Ignore this difference, and go on tolerating and documenting this value as a possible one. Though I'm suspecting response 3 to be chosen in fact, I think we should avoid html-like behavior regarding respect to standards in code implementations, and even more in normative documentation. What do you think? -- David Ammouial http://da.weeno.net/
