It wouldn't make much difference in the roster. That's true. But imagine some other mechanism, that sends requests to all your contacts on startup. :) Every stanza, and therefore the whole chain of requests, would be almost twice as big.
2009/2/19 Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>: > Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: >> As has been said, a separate namespace is a more in the spirit of XML. >> It would need no modification to existing specifications. On the other >> hand, it adds a lot of unnecessary data. As a programmer, I say >> namespace. As a user of mobile devices, I say attribute. Since the >> whole point of sequencing is to cut down bandwidth, I think the latter >> is, though it's not very clean approach, more reasonable. > > I don't think the bandwidth difference is that big here, but I like the > idea of putting it in rfc3921bis so that more people implement it. ;-) > > Peter > > -- > Peter Saint-Andre > https://stpeter.im/ > > >
