On 06/05/2008 4:08 PM, Justin Karneges wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2008 2:39 pm, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> Should we allow subscriptions to a full JID instead of a bare JID? >> >> For example: >> >> <presence from='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> to='[EMAIL PROTECTED]/resource' >> type='subscribe'/> >> >> I know people have said there are legitimate scenarios when you might >> want to do that, but I've never found them compelling. > > Historically this has always been allowed, and in fact there are some > situations where it has been required. For example, transports that > use "/registered" for subscriptions would depend on this, and they may even > still be deployed. > > Like my other mail, "MUST NOT" is too strong then. We could go with "SHOULD > NOT" if we want to attempt to deprecate the feature.
I think so too. I think it's probably enough to actively discourage this in clients. > I agree that in general this ability is mostly confusing as heck. It's kind > of an interesting geek feature, but it shouldn't be required by anyone to get > anything done. Agreed. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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