On Mon Jul 27 18:00:28 2009, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
But another way to simply respond to your comment is to note that the JID X is not being authoritative for Y, it's being authoritative for what its willing to allow in the context of Y.
I'd note for the record that even this is not accurate... Jid X is merely providing a catalogue of labels which it feels may be useful for communications with Jid Y. There may be other labels which it will allow, and the catalogue may include labels which it won't allow.
The former set of labels - those which could be used but aren't listed - are basically there because it's not only very difficult to enumerate all possible labels within a policy which pass all relevent clearances, but not useful - there's likely to be thousands.
The latter set - labels included in the catalogue which cannot actually be used - is less likely to occur, but in some cases a server might be unaware of, for example, a chatroom's clearance, and/or unwilling to discover it and filter out the useless labels.
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