Matthias Wimmer wrote:
> Hi Michal!
> 
> Michal 'vorner' Vaner schrieb:
>> What is the problem with saying the server can have a limit and deny to
>> perform such crazy operation.
> 
> Sounds reasonable. Roster items are not exchanged between servers, 

Yet. :) What happens when we define shared rosters?

> so it
> seems we do not need a common limit. Each implementation could have it's
> own and reject a request that contains longer items.
> 
> If a limitation is added to the spec, it should only be an advice for
> the minimum that should be supported by any implementation. 

Sure. BTW the schemas are NOT normative, so this is mostly a guideline
anyway.

> And it
> should be defined which error is returned if the item is to big.

I'm doing that in rfc3920bis, which is why I started to think about the
schemas.

Specifying this more tightly in rfc3920bis seems uncontroversial to me,
I never expected the idea to generate so much list traffic!

Peter

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XMPP Standards Foundation
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