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

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