Re: [Standards] XEP or not to XEP

2015-01-18 Thread David Bolack
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 06:56 EST, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: So there's the player's login name - jid - and a character name. I understand what you've written to mean there's only one active character (though there may be multiple characters). Correct. Well, you can

Re: [Standards] XEP or not to XEP

2015-01-15 Thread Dave Cridland
On 14 January 2015 at 05:57, David Bolack dbol...@missingworldsmedia.com wrote: On Monday, January 12, 2015 03:14 EST, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: In general, proposing a XEP that's rejected because it's a terrible idea adds more value than doing something that's a terrible

Re: [Standards] XEP or not to XEP

2015-01-14 Thread Ben Langfeld
is appropriate. In my experience it's worth writing a simple standards document like an XEP even if you plan to keep it proprietary. The documentation exercise makes your idea more robust and your implementation more straight forward. In short, it's always appropriate to write a spec. The worst

Re: [Standards] XEP or not to XEP

2015-01-13 Thread David Bolack
On Monday, January 12, 2015 03:14 EST, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: In general, proposing a XEP that's rejected because it's a terrible idea adds more value than doing something that's a terrible idea without discussing it. Even if you choose not to go as far as a formal protoXEP,

[Standards] XEP or not to XEP

2015-01-11 Thread David Bolack
I am working on a project where we want to use the resource id as a secondary authentication field and force the use of that value for muc nicknames. While we expect most users will use our clients, we'd like to document things so folks who prefer their client and can set the resource id to be

Re: [Standards] XEP-0166: references to XEP-0155 and XEP-0168

2007-12-04 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Lauri Kaila wrote: 2007/12/1, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (1) XEP-0155 and XEP-0168 are not normative dependencies in XEP-0166, and we mention them only to help implementors. However, I think it would be best to move those references to XEP-0208. I am also open to delaying the

Re: [Standards] XEP-0166: references to XEP-0155 and XEP-0168

2007-12-01 Thread Lauri Kaila
2007/12/1, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (1) XEP-0155 and XEP-0168 are not normative dependencies in XEP-0166, and we mention them only to help implementors. However, I think it would be best to move those references to XEP-0208. I am also open to delaying the advancement of XEP-0208

[Standards] XEP-0166: references to XEP-0155 and XEP-0168

2007-11-30 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Currently the core Jingle spec (XEP-0166) refers to both XEP-0155 (Stanza Session Negotiation) and XEP-0168 (Resource Application Priority). The context is describing how to determine which resource to communicate with when starting a Jingle session. I had a chat about this with Robert McQueen the