On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 08:59 +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> [..]
> During a quick search I haven't found were it's stated that owners are
> subscribed by default, but publisher is defined as
> 
> -----
> Publisher
> An entity that is allowed to publish items to a node and that is
> automatically subscribed to the node.
> -----

Oh wow, this has completely slipped passed my radar. I traced this
change back to XEP-0060 v1.13rc17 with the comment 'addressed Council
feedback from Matthew Wild and Kevin Smith'. See:

http://gitorious.org/xmpp/xmpp/commit/c759e582654b490fa5007e2bf929b8b78566b677/diffs

Although we did discuss adding the publish-only affiliation, I am pretty
sure this particular change was not discussed at the council meeting of
12 April 2010 (http://logs.xmpp.org/council/100412/) or the council list
(http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/council/2010-April/thread.html).

I agree that if this was indeed wanted, we need would need to do more in
the specification than this one small dependent clause. However, I
assume this change was made in error and move to have it reverted.
Peter, can you include this in your upcoming edits?

Of course an entity with the publisher affiliation is always allowed to
subscribe (unlike the publish-only affiliation), if it so desires.

--
ralphm


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