On May 29, 2012, at 10:53, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: >> On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>> >>> >>> I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being >>> the client is in invisible mode. Of course that makes invisibility much less >>> useful ;-) > > Perhaps that is my diabolical plan! ;-) > >> I've mentioned before here that this is one of the few changes I would >> like to make to the XEP - add an attribute such as probe='true' to >> allow the client to ask the server to probe contacts (with the >> consequence of not necessarily being so "invisible" any more). > > That slightly complicates this ultra-simple extension. Since the 'probe' > attribute would default to FALSE, I'd be fine with adding this feature > (as long as people understand the implications). >
RFC 6121 specifies probes be sent 'from' a bare JID 'to' a bare JID. I think this limits the presence leak severely, but that's my interpretation (-: - m&m Matthew A. Miller <http://goo.gl/LK55L>
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