On 05.06.2015 09:36, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On 5 June 2015 at 07:24, Florian Schmaus <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     On 04.06.2015 09:39, Kevin Smith wrote:
>     > On 3 Jun 2015, at 16:02, XMPP Extensions Editor <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     >> http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/nonza.html
> 
>     > The definition here seems potentially useful. I would add a ‘generally’ 
> to 4 so that it becomes “...they are generally used in a more…”, so as not to 
> be seen as prescriptive.
> 
>     Good point, going to change it.
> 
>     > None of the current nonzas are routed, but it doesn’t seem impossible 
> that one might be in the future, and I don’t see a reason to forbid it here. 
> Noting that they’re not expected to be routed seems useful and sufficient, to 
> me.
> 
>     If you want to send something that is supposed to get routed, why
>     wouldn't you use simply a Stanza instead? I consider it a security
>     improvement if routing of Nonzas is explicitly forbidden.
> 
> 
> I think the definition of a stanza is a routed top-level element, so an
> extension that negotiated "routed Nonzas" is actually negotiating a new
> stanza type. My reading of RFC 6120 seems to leave room for negotiating
> new stanzas (and moreover, they needn't have the common attributes of §8.1).

I don't think so. It appears to me that Stanzas are very well defined in
RFC 6120. See below.

> However, I don't think that RFC 6120 actually defines what a stanza
> *is*. 

From XEP-Nonza:

Stanzas ... are specified in RFC 6120 [2] § 4.1 "Stream Fundamentals"
and § 8. "XML Stanzas"

> 3) Some convenient term of art for first child elements of the stream -
> ie, the collective term for both Stanzas and Nonzas.

Top-level stream element?

- Florian


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