Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>>> Btw, changing nodeprep now will cause quite a lot of problem with
>>> existing deployments - since the contact jid's are part of the user data
>>> - and would pretty much mean we cant adopt bis spec.
>>
>> What specifically breaks? Does it depend on which characters would be
>> allowed in nodeprep2? I agree that / and @ are problematic, but the
>> characters " & ' < > seem less so. But I may be missing something.
> 
> 
> The problem essentially is that any place where we have a JID persisted
> in the backend (user roster, acl's, affiliations, privacy lists/block
> lists, etc), it will become incompatible change.
> For example, what used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] will now become
> contact&[EMAIL PROTECTED] - causing incompatibilities.

Well we're having a looooong discussion about this in the jdev room
right now:

http://www.jabber.org/muc-logs/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2007-08-02.html

I volunteer elmex for posting a summary once we're done. :)

/psa

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