Could authors of XEP-0267: Server Rosters explain what is the rationale of the MUST: "Upon receiving such a presence subscription request, the XMPP server software running at the peer MUST prompt the server administrator(s) to approve the request, rather than automatically approving it."
jabberd2 server implements "server presences" for more than a year now and automatically approves subscribes and answers probes to anyone interested. Additionally it advertises server-based services via server resources like: - example.com/echo - example.com/help - example.com/announce I see no reason for the administrator approval of these presences. Nor did I have any complaint from jabberd2 users (server administrators) that their server exposes the server presence to anyone. What is the meaning of denying this subscription? Interested party knows anyway whether the server is "online" just because it is processing XMPP packets. -- Tomasz Sterna Instant Messaging & EDI Consultant Open Source Developer http://tomasz.sterna.tv/ http://www.xiaoka.com/
