On 7/18/12 1:31 PM, Ralph Meijer wrote: > On 2012-07-17 11:39, Kevin Smith wrote: >> Right, I had assumed that. However, I'm not sure the protocol and the >> UI tie in as closely as might first appear (given that a malicious >> entity would just pick the session type most likely to be accepted). >> That is: The UI could say"Alice wants to start a conversation with you >> - this will reveal that you're online. [Reveal] [Ignore]" or whatever. >> Including a machine-readable indication of what's going to happen >> afterwards seems appealing - but ultimately I'm not sure that it helps >> (and it introduces additional complexity and need for extensibility >> and ...). > > If I understand your argument correctly, the reason for decloaking would > not be rendered by a client. Do we then actually need the element at all?
I think not. > One argument in favor of identifiers for reasons v.s. just some text is > localization. In that case I'd go with Kim's proposal. If we need it, then providing a way for it to be localized is a good idea. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
