On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything in XEP-0045 covers your relationship and interactions with a > particular room, not the service. I've been hearing about more use cases > for interaction with the service itself, so perhaps it's finally time to > write a spec about that (probably using ad-hoc commands, similar to > XEP-0133 but just for MUC).
Would this be a good XEP to include something I think is much needed, the ability to discover whether a particular nick is registered? or should this rather be in XEP-0045? The reason I believe this is needed is because the lack of it makes nick registration fairly useless in anonymous rooms. If someone can see that a user's nick is registered, they have a certain level of assurance that the next time they see this nick, it is the same person. Without this knowledge it may as well be someone completely different. Currently I don't believe there is any way to tell, which means that even if you register your nick on a service, it provides little benefit (unlike it would on IRC/NickServ). I believe this would be a small but valuable extension to the protocol. Matthew.
