Out of interest how does one propose or suggest a XEP? Although the usefulness of read receipts is debatable, it would make sense for all clients to implement them in the same way.
Spencer On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Philipp Hancke <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2013, Dave Cridland wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Thanks for sending your message. Unfortunately, I've only had time >> to >> glance at the subject and haven't actually read it. >> >> >> Right - true "read" receipts are impossible. But receipts are generally >> about moving responsibility; hence XEP-0198 acks >> move it to the next hop, XEP-0184 moves it to the client, and a read >> receipt spec would move it to the user with an >> explicit ack. >> >> I suspect there's actually little practical advantage to most people >> above a simple response of "OK", but in military and >> other critical environments it could well be useful, since then a client, >> or server, can see messages have been >> acknowledged - or have been missed. >> > > This might be useful for offline messages, where you typically don't have > an active conversation. > > ______________________________**_________________ > JDev mailing list > Info: > http://mail.jabber.org/**mailman/listinfo/jdev<http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev> > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > ______________________________**_________________ >
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