On 8/24/11 4:52 PM, Matthew A. Miller wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2011, at 16:36, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > >> On 8/24/11 4:21 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: >>> On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 16:19 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >>>> Right, there are use cases (e.g., vCards in chatrooms) that make PEP >>>> unworkable. I'm willing to have the discussion again. :) >>> >>> Did someone have a good reason to not allow both methods? >> >> I'm open to that. Although it's not always a good idea to have two ways >> of doing the same thing. :) >> > > I think in this case, we'll survive (-: > > Having the ability to know when a vCard changes without having to poll is > very very very nice.
Agreed. One stumbling block, to me, is the publishing side. How does a client know which publishing method is preferred? Do we allow only PEP publish or IQ publish, and expect the server to make the information available to both kinds of subscribers/retrievers? Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
