On 1 August 2013 17:24, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: >> Other technologies that support forwarding limit the number of >> forwards (where the max-forwards is decremented each time the message >> is forwarded). It seems that we probably need something like this in >> XEP-0297 so that we avoid infinite loops. > > Except that 297 on its own doesn't do automatic forwarding, and so > doesn't seem to be able to cause an infinite loop. > > It's possible that things using 297 would need this. Do you know of > any scenarios this could happen?
I guess some kind of auto-forwarder... but not sure of a clear use-case right now. It certainly wouldn't affect any of the protocols that are currently re-using XEP-0297 as far as I can see. Regards, Matthew
