> On 11 Dec 2015, at 10:40, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 11 December 2015 at 10:07, Kevin Smith <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2015, at 09:56, Dave Cridland <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11 December 2015 at 03:56, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Folks, I am working on revisions [1] to XEP-0176 to bring it up to date with 
>> both RFC 6544 (ice-tcp) and draft-ietf-ice-trickle. Therefore, the next 
>> version of this specification will add support for several new candidate 
>> types ("tcp-active", "tcp-passive", and "tcp-so"). To prevent confusion, I 
>> am thinking it would be best to change the XML namespace as follows...
>> 
>> old: "urn:xmpp:jingle:transports:ice-udp:1"
>> 
>> new: "urn:xmpp:jingle:transports:ice:2"
>> 
>> That is, because ICE can now be used to negotiate a TCP connection and not 
>> just a UDP association, I propose that we generalize XEP-0176 and thus 
>> change the transport name from "ice-udp" to "ice", while at the same time 
>> bumping the version from "1" to "2".
>> 
>> Does anyone have concerns with this approach?
> 
> It sounds sensible enough to me, from my position of ignorance.
> 
>> I admit I'm partly speaking as devil's advocate here - but I'm conscious 
>> that there is relatively wide deployment of XEP-0176, and I'm wondering if 
>> it might be better to create a new specification and deprecate this one in 
>> favour of it. Accessing old versions of specifications is hard, and if the 
>> changes are substantial, both specification versions will probably co-exist 
>> for some time to come.
> 
> They’re available at a stable URL, though, so it’d be fairly straightforward 
> to put a link to the old version in the new version, if that’s a concern.
> 
> 
> Yes, and maybe that's good enough. I just remember we had a degree of 
> confusion around the time we changed XEP-0115 to include cryptographic 
> hashes, and most clients were sending without. I don't want to make this 
> stuff any harder than it is already.

Sure. A backref in this cases might be quite sensible.

/K

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