> On 2 Dec 2016, at 22:50, Tobias Markmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> 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? :)
I suspect that, on the matter of unique ids nested within stanzas, we never
did. Or at least we never really put much consideration into it. I could be
wrong.
/K
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