On 9/10/10 11:34 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
>
>>> When a resource receives this push it can know that other resource has
>>> requested subscription by inspecting the subscription 'none + prending
>>> out', am I wrong? which is the use case of "ask=subscribe" then?
>>
>> You're asking that we change a core part of the protocol for the sake of
>> syntactic hygiene.
> 
> Oh no, I just ask the reason for it. Perhaps I missed something in the specs 
> :)

There is no reason. :)

You're asking about very early decisions made in the Jabber community.
We don't always have documentation for those, but you could review some
of the list archives from 1999:

http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/

The whole scheme of states like "None + Pending Out" was a later attempt
at describing the way things were.

>> That's simply not going to happen at this point, but
>> feel free to raise the issue on the XMPP WG list, which is the
>> appropriate venue for discussion of the XMPP RFCs.
>>
>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/xmpp
> 
> Thanks for pointing it. However, as I'm not proposing a change (but
> just asking about the current specs), is this the appropriate maillist
> for a question like mine?

Sure. I thought you were proposing changes.

Peter

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