On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 10:04 +0200, Matthias Wimmer wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre schrieb: > > I received some extensive feedback on server dialback from someone > > offlist, and the commenter complained long and loud about the many > > ambiguities involved in the so-called "piggybacking" method described here: > > > > http://www.xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-rfc3920bis-02.html#dialback-reuse > > > > > > The suggestion is to remove piggybacking. I would like feedback from > > people on this list about whether that is desirable. > > I just want to note that if piggybacking is removed we break > compatibility with existing implementations and we therefore have to > change the XMPP version to 2.0.
Is that true? I have created an implementation of dialback for Twisted Words that doesn't handle piggybacking (yet). It seems to be able to interact nicely with several servers out there, even while hosting multiple (sub)domains. Also, implementations are not required to (allow) reuse of negotiated connections. Note the SHOULD. -- Groetjes, ralphm
