Re: [Standards] Re: [jdev] XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin Smith
reason, I can attest that my users actually do want it. :) Psi has had a similar experience, and we only switched from iq:version automatically to showing caps info. /K -- Kevin Smith KTP Associate - Exeter University / ai Corporation Psi Jabber client developer/project leader (http://psi

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 is harmful and should be deferred

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin Smith
you'll only receive caps when it changes, because it'll be stripped out of subsequent presence packets to you. /K -- Kevin Smith KTP Associate - Exeter University / ai Corporation Psi Jabber client developer/project leader (http://psi-im.org/) XMPP Standards Foundation Council Member (http

Re: [Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Getting a User's Attention

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin Smith
guess most clients would just have an option to ignore the tag. /K -- Kevin Smith KTP Associate - Exeter University / ai Corporation Psi Jabber client developer/project leader (http://psi-im.org/) XMPP Standards Foundation Council Member (http://xmpp.org)

Re: [Standards] XEP-0004: Data Forms - Open Issues

2007-07-12 Thread Kevin Smith
On 12 Jul 2007, at 16:37, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Tobias Markmann wrote: I just noticed that it doesn't define whether duplicates are allowed in jid-multi or not either. What's the point of duplicates? IMHO the jid-multi field SHOULD NOT include duplicates and duplicates MUST be ignored.

Re: [Standards] MUC rooms on roster.

2007-08-09 Thread Kevin Smith
On 3 Aug 2007, at 10:10, Robin Redeker wrote: Hm, and what is about http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0048.html Some people don't like 48, but I don't really know why (apart from it depending on iq:private, which'll be upgraded one of these days). To me muc rooms seem substantially

Re: [Standards] storage:* namespaces

2007-08-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On 17 Aug 2007, at 18:23, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Kevin Smith wrote: On 17 Aug 2007, at 16:50, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I propose that we write new specs to replace XEP-0048 and XEP-0145 I don't really know what's wrong with 48 - it's deployed, it works, and once it's updated to the new

Re: [Standards] invisibility (was: Re: xep-0199 redundancy)

2007-08-27 Thread Kevin Smith
On 27 Aug 2007, at 17:28, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: We had a long long discussion thread about this a few months ago, as a result of which we modified rfc3920bis to recommend the use of random resource identifiers that are generated by the server, not the client. FWIW, I don't agree with the

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2007-08-28 Thread Kevin Smith
On 28 Aug 2007, at 02:49, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Kevin Smith wrote: FWIW, I don't agree with the notion that these random resources are a good thing Yes, you have previously expressed that opinion. :) Sorry, I'm not really trying to harp on, I realise this battle has been fought and lost

Re: [Standards] [XEP-0045 v. 1.23pre3] outsiders and 'broadcast' invitations

2007-10-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On 23 Oct 2007, at 09:31, Tomasz Sterna wrote: I think, that we should document best practices to do so, and standardize the extensions you had described, in sake of interoperability. This couldn't hurt /K

Re: [Standards] Binary data over XMPP

2007-11-07 Thread Kevin Smith
On 7 Nov 2007, at 09:27, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: 2. Attach a larger color sketch -- a file, the image for which a thumbnail is a representation, or whatever (50k to 1M?). I think we use HTTP-PUT (perhaps via WebDAV) and jabber:x:oob, with IBB as a fallback. 3. Send a huge color canvas -- a

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-10 Thread Kevin Smith
The short version for people who don't want to read: I'll +1 the spec we voted on last night at next council unless someone posts saying that they agree with any of my objections. I won't turn this into another PEP if no-one agrees. On Jan 9, 2008 11:14 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-14 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 11, 2008 11:29 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Based on the list discussion, I have updated the provisional version of XEP-0115 (Entity Capabilities). I think: pA client SHOULD enable a human user to disable inclusion of the 'v' attribute, which

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 v. 1.5pre14

2008-01-14 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 15, 2008 3:33 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have updated the provisional version of XEP-0115 per recent list discussion. I have only a minor word-smithing niggle: The collision and preimage section is a bit unclear - for the first halfread I though the terms were

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 15, 2008 8:06 PM, Dave Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be reasonable to cache iq:version results against node+ver+v of the XEP-115 if the hash attribute exists? It doesn't really work, since the node+ver+v doesn't contain as much info as the iq:version does. There's no

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 17, 2008 6:42 AM, Rachel Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, we're talking about breaking a really good protocol for information that is only mildly useful... Sure, but then recognize some people will iq:version flood because they'll feel the need to query an entire contact

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 17, 2008 9:43 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes. :) I'll drink to that. Per Dave's comment: I don't see an attack. What one could do, with the previously suggested method (not the current xep proposal) is to claim to be Psi

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 18, 2008 11:02 AM, Alexander Gnauck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We also have jabber:iq:time, which is more useful for me than the os when talking to people in other timezones. And there is many other stuff which people want to render on their roster. Well, timezones belong in pep really as

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Smith
Another factor: how many of the server implementations support the caps optimization feature? As far as I know - none at the moment, but presumably if this was deemed important, it'd go in the protocol suites and it'd get implemented. I think it's just not a priority because no-one's asking for

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-21 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 21, 2008 4:38 PM, Joe Hildebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We just had a talk about this IRL, and the upshot is, I think that Ralph is on to something. If we give up on trying to reuse hash values across different clients, which I think is of dubious value particularly since I don't

Re: [Standards] XEP-0115 redux

2008-01-22 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 22, 2008 4:11 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are we there yet?!? ;-) That said, this revision looks fine to me. I've only given it a quick look over so far, but this looks ok to me. I'll give it a more thorough read before council votes. /K

Re: [Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Client Information

2008-01-22 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 22, 2008 6:02 AM, Tobias Markmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/clientinfo.html What are the enhancements of this XEP compared to XEP-0092? Why should one implement this XEP and not XEP-0092? Since both XEPs seem to do the same job I think there is

Re: [Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: User Bleg

2008-01-22 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 22, 2008 3:56 AM, XMPP Extensions Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abstract: This specification defines an XMPP protocol extension that enables a user to broadcast a question or request to other interested parties. Perhaps someone could talk me through this one, please? The pep/message

Re: [Standards] urn:xmpp:tmp:*

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Smith
urn:xmpp:tmp:foo What's not to love? /K

Re: [Standards] Fwd: Proposed XMPP Extension: User Bleg

2008-01-31 Thread Kevin Smith
On Jan 30, 2008 11:15 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Kevin publishes an answer to whatever node better identifies the subject (free tagging) AND the following metadata to the commented node: I think Kevin might want to post both to his own node, and a reference to Peter's

Re: [Standards] PEP and disco features question

2008-02-04 Thread Kevin Smith
On Feb 5, 2008 12:41 AM, Gaston Dombiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In particular the XEP says: If a server supports PEP, it MUST return an identity of pubsub/pep (as well as a list of the namespaces and other features it supports, including all supported XEP-0060 features): So the question

Re: [Standards] Google Androïd SDK not XMPP complian t ?

2008-02-23 Thread Kevin Smith
Thanks very much for the extensive post Dan. It would be great, for us, if you could keep us updated with what you discover about mobile 'XMPP', and what changes you need to make, because we'll undoubtedly need to look at it ourselves and wrap up and formalise the protocols (and who likes wasted

Re: [Standards] Whiteboard XEP, Gajim and GSoC2008

2008-03-02 Thread Kevin Smith
2008/3/2 Joonas Govenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I suppose these last questions are a little off topic for the list but I'm very curious about the answers myself. In fact, I'd like to work on this stuff again for GSoC but I have a feeling the Council will want to give the chance to someone new

Re: [Standards] Whiteboard XEP, Gajim and GSoC2008

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Smith
2008/3/3 Mateusz Biliński [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just thought I ask them here because these are strongly connected to standardization of whiteboarding in XMPP. Do you think that I should post these somewhere else? Maybe end user list? I think this is pretty much the best place for you. /K

Re: [Standards] Stanza Multicast Repeaters

2008-03-22 Thread Kevin Smith
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:40:08PM +0100, Carlo v. Loesch wrote: We have thus delegated stanza delivery as follows: .net - .com - .int - .org I'm strictly against this kind of relying. Let's not dismiss

Re: [Standards] LAST CALL: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2008-04-03 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a email last week in the standards list about this one. Should I repost it in this thread? Or move it to the jdev list? It's still in my inbox to reply to you, it didn't go unnoticed :) /K

Re: [Standards] Query regarding Vcard-temp

2008-04-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:37 AM, kawaljeet singh chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everytime i see the extension XEP-0054, one question comes to my mind. Why is the extension named as Vcard-temp not Vcard itself. Do temp has some significance ? It was supposed to be temporary, and some people

Re: [Standards] Meta-Contacts: implementation notes

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Smith
Finally replying... On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The protocol is using private storage. I talked to one of the authors, Kevin, that told me that a PEP-powered version will be available sometime in the future. Using private storage is not a big problem,

Re: [Standards] Meta-Contacts: implementation notes

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is interesting. Are you saying that we don't need private data storage or PEP at all for Metacontacts? That would certainly simplify the deployment task. :) No, I think it's saying there's a (inferior)

Re: [Standards] 2009 compliance suites?

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be helpful for us to define 2009 suites? If so, we need to get that done soon, because we promised that we'd define the suites for 2009 by June 30 2008 (etc.). We should . /K

Re: [Standards] 2009 compliance suites?

2008-05-27 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty happy with the way we previously used RECOMMENDED, I think it's a good heads-up that it'll be required the following year. Except that sometimes it may not be required, in which case the RECOMMENDED is a

Re: [Standards] thread destruction

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XEP-0085 says: Upon receiving a gone/ event, a client MUST NOT re-use the same Thread ID and MUST generate a new Thread ID for any subsequent chat messages sent to the conversation partner. XEP-0201 says:

Re: [Standards] offline delivery when the connection is broken

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Jehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway don't you think this would be better to improve client and server implementations rather than adding a new layer atop all the current one? XMPP is made to be exchanged on top of a reliable connection (most common and the

Re: [Standards] thread destruction

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
Yes, I think you're right. So maybe we just need to define gone/ more carefully? Seems so to me. /K

Re: [Standards] thread destruction

2008-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, gone/ is defined as the user has effectively ended their participation in the chat session -- i.e., the user has not interacted with the chat interface, system, or device for a relatively long period of time

Re: [Standards] presence priority -1 issues

2008-07-27 Thread Kevin Smith
It's possible this is just a UI problem. I remember chatting to Pedro Melo about this back in February, and I believe our conclusion back then was just that clients will start showing -1 as a non-chat resource, or somesuch, depending on how general usage pans out /K

Re: [Standards] pubsub simplification

2008-07-28 Thread Kevin Smith
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In accordance with XMPP Council consensus, I have provisionally separated all the information about pubsub collections into a new spec: I wonder if at the same time we might want to move the information about presence

Re: [Standards] XEP-0045: requesting a unique room name

2008-08-13 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any MUC implementation coded in support for the unique room name request feature described in Section 10.1.4 of XEP-0045? I think this feature is unnecessary and (in the interest of simplification) I would like to

Re: [Standards] XEP-0045: requesting a unique room name

2008-08-13 Thread Kevin Smith
I'd buy client-asserted hashes if conferencing was some peer-to-peer thing, but MUC is a client/server design. Plus it's conceivable that a muc service would only want to serve rooms at addresses it supplies. /K

Re: [Standards] XEP-0045: requesting a unique room name

2008-08-14 Thread Kevin Smith
But then you have a dependency on the server side, right? Why not just generate a UUID on the client side? Well - turn this on its head: There are two options on the table. 1) Do it client side, and /probably/ everything works. 2) Do it server side (where it's easier), and everything certainly

Re: [Standards] XEP-0045: requesting a unique room name

2008-08-14 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus it's conceivable that a muc service would only want to serve rooms at addresses it supplies. What difference does it make if the MUC service generates a UUID or the client generates a UUID? One UUID is as good as

Re: [Standards] Stanza Size Limits (was Re: [jdev] Communicate between two client instances of the same ID)

2008-09-04 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure but as a server admin I would not admit a client negotiating a larger stanza than my own C2S or S2S limits. Sorry - I'm jumping in mid-thread again, but I don't remember seeing this discussed. If stanza sizes are a stream

Re: [Standards] website transition

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Jehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did you change this all? I am not speaking about Apache/lighthttpd, this is rather transparent, but why the Drupal to Mediawiki update? The short version (I wrote a longer version, but it turned into a rant): Once upon a time,

Re: [Standards] website transition

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Jehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So a short page summarizing the current topics in the XSF, ... On the new wiki, we could such a page now... We could - it just needs someone to volunteer to do it and keep it up to date by reading the lists, mucs, etc. /K

Re: [Standards] Namespaces, specifications, and protocol life cycles

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Dave Cridland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: urn:xmpp:protoname:1 Sane. /K

Re: [Standards] Namespaces, specifications, and protocol life cycles

2008-09-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kev and I just chatted about this via IM. So I take it that we'd start with urn:xmpp:protoname:0 and increment from there? I'm fine with that, and it does seem more sane than the :tmp: approach. 2.

Re: [Standards] RCF3920bis07: Resource generation

2008-10-04 Thread Kevin Smith
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Matthew Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I recalled some discussion on the lists already regarding this, but I haven't been able to find it. On resource binding, the RFC says the server MAY modify the client's chosen resource. Is there a reason that it

Re: [Standards] RCF3920bis07: Resource generation

2008-10-07 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's also that the disco spec says that identity / should be consistent beyond what is being suggested here. You mean section 6.3, Response Consistency? I do. I think overloading identity at the deployment level is a bad

Re: [Standards] RCF3920bis07: Resource generation

2008-10-07 Thread Kevin Smith
Doesn't it break the purpose of the caps? I originally thought the authors wanted to have a reasonable number of different caps to cache at the servers. There's also that the disco spec says that identity / should be consistent beyond what is being suggested here. I think overloading identity

Re: [Standards] [Fwd: [Council] meeting minutes, 2008-10-08]

2008-10-09 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Remko Tronçon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consensus that we need to determine how widely XEP-0203 is deployed before changing this to Obsolete. This in favor of XEP-91, right? I know XEP-0146 depends on it since recently, but that can be changed to XEP-91.

Re: [Standards] XEP-0174: TXT record format

2008-10-20 Thread Kevin Smith
If I'm right, this is a fairly serious spec bug. Are people doing this in the wild? /K

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jonathan Schleifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought about creating a XEP that defines a basic set of emoticons http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0038.html#sect-id2261834 Does define a core set of smilies, but no-one's updated the XEP recently. /K

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-24 Thread Kevin Smith
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Maciek Niedzielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any client use JISP? Psi does. I'm fairly sure we're not the only ones, although I can't remember offhand who else does. /K

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-25 Thread Kevin Smith
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Artur Hefczyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so you know, that parser is not a conforming XML parser. Tigase happily accepts data that is not XML-well-formed, and happily routes or delivers it. That's true but please note that XMPP stream is not really XML

Re: [Standards] Thought For The Day: type=groupchat

2008-10-28 Thread Kevin Smith
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a message stanza of type groupchat, the server SHOULD NOT deliver the stanza to any of the available resources but instead SHOULD return an error to the sender. That's consistent with my view of how the world

Re: [Standards] Errata, and some suggestions to various specs

2008-11-05 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Waqas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully this was the Right Way to post these. I was wondering if I should have posted these separately, particularly the part about XEP-0049. I think posting them at all was most welcome - Peter may have views on the most

Re: [Standards] C2C TLS

2008-11-25 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Schleifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Gajim, yes. In other clients it's deployed. Yes, but that are *VERY* few, like Psi in SVN (last time I tried to build it, it wouldn't because it's still coded for gcc 3 and after about 20 changes I got too lazy to

Re: [Standards] Message Mine'ing

2008-12-02 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Jonathan Schleifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't want that, I really wouldn't want that. I have an mcabber That's ok - when it's not the only online resource, mcabber will know (through mine-ing) that it's not being talked to, so there's no reason for it to

Re: [Standards] Message Mine'ing

2008-12-02 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Joe Hildebrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's ok - when it's not the only online resource, mcabber will know (through mine-ing) that it's not being talked to, so there's no reason for it to be logging the messages. I would suggest that it could remove them from

[Standards] Fwd: Minutes of meeting 2008-12-10

2008-12-11 Thread Kevin Smith
FYI... -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Smith ke...@kismith.co.uk Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:01 PM Subject: Minutes of meeting 2008-12-10 To: XMPP Council coun...@xmpp.org Results of the XMPP Council meeting held 2008-12-10... Agenda: http://xmpp.org/council/agendas/2008

[Standards] Fwd: Minutes 2009-01-21

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Smith
FYI: -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Smith Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:51 PM Subject: Minutes 2009-01-21 To: XMPP Council Date: 2009-01-21 Time: 20:00 UTC Place: xmpp:coun...@conference.jabber.org Log:http://logs.jabber.org/coun...@conference.jabber.org/2009-01-21

Re: [Standards] LAST CALL: XEP-0205 (Best Practices to Discourage Denial of Service Attacks)

2009-01-22 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: Proposed text at the bottom. WFM. Thanks Peter, /K

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Schleifer js-xmpp-standa...@webkeks.org wrote: Btw, I got one suggestion that would fix merging contacts: Give contacts a UUID when you make them a meta contact. That UUID could be shared on the two servers, so the client knows that the contacts from

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Smith
009/1/23 Jiří Zárevúcký zarevucky.j...@gmail.com: Really, if this is something that is going to be discussed, then you should just allow for extra XML namespaces under each item in the roster. I was thinking about this and it really starts to seem to me like the best idea of this entire

Re: [Standards] Password protected rooms

2009-02-09 Thread Kevin Smith
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Matt Ford m...@dancingfrog.co.uk wrote: The question is is it sensible? should the spec change or is it a bug in ejabberd? It's both - it's a bug in ejabberd that it doesn't follow the spec, and it's a bug in the spec because that's not sensible :) The spec

Re: [Standards] Password protected rooms

2009-02-10 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Kurt Zeilenga kurt.zeile...@isode.com wrote: It seems not so sensible when the admin happens to be authenticating directly to the server hosting the chatroom. But for the case where the administrator authenticates elsewhere, possibly to a server under separate

Re: [Standards] Password protected rooms

2009-02-11 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Kurt Zeilenga kurt.zeile...@isode.com wrote: I'm thinking more about a non-comprised server case, but just the case of poor administrative practices. Ok, I follow, thanks. Given that, maybe keeping password requirements on all affiliations is sensible. /K

Re: [Standards] Password protected rooms

2009-02-11 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: This single issue aside however, I do think that the total lack of any way to track which services a JID is affiliated with is scary. This affects transports/gateways, MUCs, etc. Are roster subscriptions even cancelled on

Re: [Standards] Inconsistent Subscriptions in XMPP

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Pavel Simerda pav...@pavlix.net wrote: From an IM user's point of view, trying to settle on the highest common permissions seems more appropriate (and less confusing). Very bad idea. You have either to go for lowest... or negotiate with the user. (Privacy

Re: [Standards] end-to-end stanza routing

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Klaus Hartke klaus.har...@googlemail.com wrote:   Q4. Should stanzas directed to a bare jid always be sent       via the server, or should the client look at received       presence stanzas from that jid and, if the client has       a end-to-end connection

Re: [Standards] Anonymous users in Muc

2009-03-18 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Kevin Smith ke...@kismith.co.uk wrote: That sounds entirely sane to me. Sorry, I quoted the wrong bit, try: Eg in Muc it makes no sense to ban anonymous Jids or perform other similar actions on such users. Or a room owner may no allow anonymous users because

[Standards] XEP-0258 MUC

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Smith
Having a read of the Security Labels XEP, it seems that it's going to have some interesting interactions with MUC upgrading from 1-1 chats. Particularly, you're going to invite someone with a different catalogue, and then upload past history to the room. Any thoughts? /K

Re: [Standards] XEP-0258 MUC

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: Moreover, I don't think your client could - with the facilities in XEP-0258 - make the 1:1 - MUC transition without human intervention, and, more probably, human knowledge about clearances. Or, probably, the 258-enabled

[Standards] Fwd: Meeting minutes 2009-04-01

2009-04-01 Thread Kevin Smith
FYI... -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Smith Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:55 PM Subject: Meeting minutes 2009-04-01 To: XMPP Council coun...@xmpp.org Date:   2009-04-01 Time:   19:00 UTC Place:  xmpp:coun...@conference.jabber.org Log:    http://logs.jabber.org/coun

Re: [Standards] XEP-0224 Attention

2009-04-14 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Nicolas Vérité nicolas.ver...@gmail.com wrote: Not so nonsense: I wish I had the passed attention requests when I get back to my client... It is a worthwhile information, even if it's too late. That way, I could contact back the guy that tried to get my

Re: [Standards] XEP-0145 (Annotations)

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Smith
This XEP is maked as historical, why? Is it replaced by something else? Shouldn't it be updated to use pubsub instead of XML storage? Well, I think really we want the ability to hang arbitrary data off roster items. At least, that's what I'd like :) /K

[Standards] Fwd: [Council] Minutes for May 6

2009-05-06 Thread Kevin Smith
FYI: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:31 PM Subject: [Council] Minutes for May 6 Role call: All present Agenda bashing: None. - - XEP-0166: Jingle - - XEP-0167: Jingle RTP Sessions - - XEP-0176: Jingle ICE-UDP Transport Method - - XEP-0177: Jingle Raw

Re: [Standards] reliable messaging

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Sergei Golovan sgolo...@gmail.com wrote: If you get a ping response, then - due to the ordering of all stanzas between two endpoints - the message must have been delivered. I'm afraid that if the previous stanza wasn't delivered for some reason then

Re: [Standards] reliable messaging

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
2009/6/17 Remko Tronçon re...@el-tramo.be: Well, there's not much worse than a reliable messaging protocol that isn't 100% reliable. If there's the slightest possibility that this fails (e.g. client going offline and coming online with the same resource, and for some reason the presence

Re: [Standards] reliable messaging

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Evgeniy Khramtsovxramt...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Cridland wrote: Well, a broken client is by its nature unreliable I don't think you can do anything to prevent that. We can show to the sender that the recipient didn't receive the message. How? If the client is

Re: [Standards] reliable messaging

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Evgeniy Khramtsovxramt...@gmail.com wrote: How? If the client is broken, you have no way of knowing that it's not sending message receipts in error. Message receipts in error? What do you mean? If your message isn't processed due to an internal client error,

Re: [Standards] reliable messaging

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Brian Cully bcu...@gmail.com wrote:        Don't get me wrong, I agree that there are no perfect guarantees. However, I think focusing too much on that is distracting. While you can never know for sure you can establish a certain amount of trust. Message ACKs

Re: [Standards] [xmpp] Routing of IQs to full JIDs - special cases?

2009-06-26 Thread Kevin Smith
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Matthew Wildmwi...@gmail.com wrote: I look forward to hearing the opinion of others on this, Sounds right to me. /K

[Standards] MUC and SASL ANONYMOUS (was Re: XEP-0175 v. 1.2rc1)

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin Smith
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Philipp Hanckefi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: heh... xmpp should be more like irc ;-) Another way I can see XMPP becoming more IRC-like wrt MUC and SASL anonymous: IRC servers often do lookups on clients to check they're not running from an open proxy - I can see

Re: [Standards] MUC and SASL ANONYMOUS (was Re: XEP-0175 v. 1.2rc1)

2009-07-06 Thread Kevin Smith
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Peter Saint-Andrestpe...@stpeter.im wrote: Another way I can see XMPP becoming more IRC-like wrt MUC and SASL anonymous: IRC servers often do lookups on clients to check they're not running from an open proxy - I can see a situation in which servers will start

Re: [Standards] xep - 144

2009-07-14 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Peter Saint-Andrestpe...@stpeter.im wrote: - It does a jabber:iq:roster request on gateway.example.com This is not limited to gateways, but also to shared groups services (e.g., you get all the XSF members in a special Members group). This is so simple and

Re: [Standards] xep - 144

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Peter Saint-Andrestpe...@stpeter.im wrote: Could we just do a new urn:xmpp:roster namespace, expose your master roster via that namespace (also), and use that new namespace to talk to external entities? Or we could use jabber:iq:roster as we always have in the

[Standards] Roster changes

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
While we're discussing upgrading roster handling, can I put my request in for hanging arbitrary xml off the roster entries, please? /K

Re: [Standards] xep - 144

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
2009/7/15 Remko Tronçon re...@el-tramo.be: I'm sure there were good reasons for both these suggestions - I can understand why if we upgrade the usage we can upgrade the namespace, but what is the motivation for suggesting two different namespaces for the same job? It will take some time until

Re: [Standards] Roster changes

2009-07-15 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Peter Saint-Andrestpe...@stpeter.im wrote: While we're discussing upgrading roster handling, can I put my request in for hanging arbitrary xml off the roster entries, please? Look, folks, this is a major redesign of core XMPP functionality. I think we need to

Re: [Standards] Roster changes

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Richard Dobsonrich...@dobson-i.net wrote: I don't need a new protocol actually. I would like to have the ability to add extra namespaced nodes to each item, that would solve all my pet peeves with roster entries. Like how Google Talk works?

Re: [Standards] Roster changes

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Richard Dobsonrich...@dobson-i.net wrote: Yes, similar, except I'd like to hang extra elements off it, instead of extra attributes. Surely you can just namespace an element then instead of just an attribute to accomplish that? As far as I can see whether its

[Standards] Initial presence. Was Roster changes

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jonathan Schleiferjs-xmpp-standa...@webkeks.org wrote: The real problem with the presence flood is that they come for about 5 minutes for me. It's like there's one wave of available presences every 30 seconds. This is kind of annoying if you just connect to see

Re: [Standards] xep - 144

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Fabio Fornofabio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: Some more thoughts, which are the business rules for accepting roster items? I explain with some cases: - in the main roster on the server we have jids coming from any domain - can rosters coming form separate services

Re: [Standards] xep - 144

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Fabio Fornofabio.fo...@gmail.com wrote: They can come from any domain - think of a shared roster/user groups service. Uhm, I'm trying to think together with presence delivery too. Shared roster is bit tricky in that, since shared.jabber.org could tell you that

Re: [Standards] Roster changes

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Jonathan Schleiferjs-xmpp-standa...@webkeks.org wrote: The idea that some might be shown as being offline although their offline is quite scary. Yes, and astonishing, too. /K

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