On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
8.5 Friendly Name
The 'name' attribute of the service discovery <identity/> element
enables a responding application to specify the "friendly name" for
its node. However, this attribute is excluded from the hash
generation method, primarily because it is human-readable text and
therefore may be provided in different localized versions. As a
result, its inclusion would needlessly multiply the number of
possible hash values and thus the time and resources required to
validate values of the 'ver' attribute. However, a receiving
application MAY send a service discovery information request to a
particularly JID+node combination in order to determine the friendly
name, then cache the result for that JID+node only.
Can we have a MUST on the caching, please? (I'd be willing to back
down to SHOULD if need be)
I have moved this from the Internationalization Considerations (and
have deleted that section) since this seems to be only tangentially
related to i18n.
+1
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Joe Hildebrand
