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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