On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are, but that shouldn't stop me confusing things! > > Tobi mentioned that we should use UUIDs, I thought it wasn't necessary, > Tobi pointed out that the ID needs to be unique within an XML document (the > XMPP stream), and UUIDs would achieve that for forwards of multiple stanzas > and things, I mentioned that we couldn't guarantee that even with UUIDs and > that we're already breaking that rule so it probably doesn't matter. > > And I very much want it blue ;) > Regarding normal usage in a stream and simple forwarding i don't see an issue as the chance of conflict is very very small [0]. The chance of receiving the same stanza twice via MAM from the archive within a stream is not that small i think though. I wonder if we specify that in the MAM spec that the server basically has to rewrite an IDs in the message DOM subtree to avoid conflicts. Or don't we care a about XML conformance anymore in the year 2016? :) Cheers, Tobi [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Random_UUID_probability_of_duplicates
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