> >> I can totally agree that non-participant clients MAY be able to
> >> access message archives, and other read-only cases. But it seems
> >> wrong that a non- participant could share presence.
> > [Steve Kille]
> >
> > Might be sensible to clarify requirements for non-participant access to MIX
> channels.    Perhaps an Agenda item in Brussels?
> >
> 
> Yes, sure. But I think it can loosely be anything could be visible to non-
> participants, but you cannot submit any data or get live updates without
> participating. (I can bend on the live updates, but I think the mechanics mean
> it's a natural requirement).
[Steve Kille] 

This feels about right.    Sorting this is non-trivial.   I've taken an action 
to review this.   Will most likely add a section on "non-participant access", 
and then ensure details of the spec match.


> 
> >> >> * §5.3 - the node='mix' here seems superfluous, I think, though I
> >> >> could be wrong.
> >> > [Steve Kille]
> >> >
> >> > The reason for this is to support MUC/MIX sharing.   If you don't see
> >> node=mix, the query is from a MUC client, and you should not send
> >> confusing MIX stuff.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I think that's needed in §5.4's disc#items, but not in §5.3's
> >> disco#info. If a disco#info response with both MIX and MUC confuses
> >> clients, something is broken in XEP-0030.
> > [Steve Kille]
> >
> > You are probably right that 5.3 is OK without, but given that MIX specific
> information is returned, it feels safer to include.
> >
> 
> No. If the MIX disco#info features are not safe to include in a normal
> XEP-0030 disco#info query, there's something gone badly wrong. It must,
> almost by definition, be safe to include the MIX information in the same
> response.
> 
> I'm not even convinced it's not safe to include both MIX and MUC items in a
> disco#items response, but it would certainly be clutter at the very least.
> 
> >
> >>
> >> In addition, how does a client know to try a disco#info with
> >> node='mix'? It would need to discover MIX support first, surely?
> > [Steve Kille]
> >
> > This is the channel.   It will know MIX support from the domain.
> 
> So a common pattern here is that a user is passed (or enters) a jid of the
> room/channel to join. The client needs to discover if the room/channel can
> support MIX or not.
> 
> The standard method for achieving this is to use Service Discovery to find the
> supported features of the jid, ie, disco#info. Your proposal is that standard
> disco#info does not work with MIX channels, and instead the client would
> need to do one of:
> 
> a) Query the domain of the jid, and then query the channel with node='mix'
> if MIX is supported by the domain.
> b) Query the channel speculatively with node='mix' alongside the standard
> mechanism.
> 
> Neither seems very efficient.
> 
> Now, if you're correct in your implicit assertion that XEP-0030 is
> fundamentally broken, and MUC-only clients would be hideously confused
> by the presence of both MIX and MUC data in the same disco#info response,
> then how are the same clients going to cope with the MIX data in the
> domain-level response?
[Steve Kille] 

I am taking an action to review this with my co-author, and will then update 
the spec.   Bear with me.


> 
> Dave.
[Steve Kille] 

Steve



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