On 25 March 2011 20:38, Gregg Vanderheiden <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that we should be very careful with retro-editing. > Any edits should be plainly visible as edits. There will be a lot of > business carried out in this medium. And much of it will be carried out by > people who not only don't pay attention to settings, but may not even know > there are settings in their client -- or that all clients do not behave the > same. > So having someone able to edit the RECORD of the chat, not only on their > machine, but on the machines of others. And to allow them to edit text > that has scrolled off screen (say on a phone), would allow them to change > the RECORD of a conversation without the person knowing about it.
Everything you listed pertains to the client/UI and not the protocol. I think this is "conflating the unconflatable" (to quote a wise man). There's a difference between deciding how we inform someone of a change and how their client displays it. The XEP already contains warnings to client developers that they should make edits clear, and as long as we keep this then I don't see how such an extension is changing XMPP significantly at all. Regards, Matthew
