On Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2017 08:30:38 CET Kevin Smith wrote:
> On 4 Dec 2017, at 09:33, Evgeny Khramtsov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Serous question: I wonder where do you see the benefit in schema
> > 
> >> validation? You (always) need a parser which ensures that protocol
> >> requirements like "this attribute must exist", or "this attribute must
> >> be a uint32_t" are fulfilled.
> > 
> > I have this validator in ejabberd, yes. And if it's enabled, the stanza
> > with <retry/> element will be rejected. And I consider this as a correct
> > behaviour.
> 
> I think that’s ok, isn’t it?
> 
> I think the two options (as-is, or new namespace) are equivalent from your
> validator’s point of view: 1) As-is: previous version payloads are allowed
> through, new versions won’t be allowed through until the validator is
> updated 2) New namespace: previous version payloads are allowed through,
> new versions won’t be allowed through until the validator is updated
> 
> So I don’t think that on it’s own is necessarily a reason to bump the
> namespace, is it?

I don’t think that’s ok. ejabberd would violate the expectation of the user 
that either a type="result" or type="error" is returned, if they simply filter 
out the "erroneous" stanza.

Also, I still don’t believe that intermediate servers should validate content 
which doesn’t concern them.

kind regards,
Jonas

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