On 23 January 2017 at 10:33, Evgeny Khramtsov <[email protected]> wrote: > Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:37:44 +0000 > Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If by a generic relay you mean "reflects traffic as-is too all >> subscribers", isn't that what MIX/MUC are providing? > > It is hard to call it "generic", because it introduces very specific > stuff like "subject" node for example, e.g. the XEP is quite designed > to serve only a single purpose, i.e. groupchat (unlike pubsub, at > least initially supposed to be). MIX also introduces a concept of JID > proxying (with moot security profile), which I think should be a > separate XEP as well (but that's another story). > So, I think MIX should be a profile of this "generic relay", like > XEP-0084 or XEP-0223 is a profile of pubsub. Well, at least if one > wants to replace MUC ;)
MIX introduces a proxy JID simply because without one, you'd have to have metadata in the message to indicate the publisher. This is, therefore, a sort of elegance trade-off. If we want simple reflection - and I think we do - then we need to do proxy JIDs. You're right that the entire thing could be broken up into several smaller XEPs, though - I'd welcome such a thing. I don't, however, care sufficiently to put in the work, but I'll support anyone else doing so. Dave. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
