2009/5/29 Dirk Meyer <[email protected]>: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> In the XMPP Council meeting yesterday, we discussed the desirability of >> adding some implementation notes to XEP-0199 (XMPP Ping) before >> advancing it from Draft to Final. > > Stupid question: why use XEP-0199 and not <r/> <a h='0'/> from XEP-0189 > for this task? >
Very simple answer: Clients not supporting the XEP will still respond with IQ error (if they are XMPP compliant, which is not the extension's problem). They wouldn't respond to some unknown "r" element. Also think of all the client that won't support XEP-189 for veeeery long time.
