On 1/21/10 8:31 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 at 08:03:24 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> So let's look at the pros and cons... > > I generally agree with psa's assessment here. One more note: > >> - session-specific presence sharing isn't really a presence >> subscription, which in XMPP is and has always been a long-lived trust >> relationship between two entities; overloading that trust relationship >> seems like a bad idea > > A genuine subscription request, if accepted, gives the requester access to > your > full presence (<show/> and <status/>, not just "available"), and any pubsub > nodes that have the "normal" PEP access control level (geolocation, etc.). > None of those were actually necessary for the session they wanted to establish > with you (e.g. a Jingle call).
I'd be happy to add some of this reasoning to the ProtoXEP. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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