On Montag, 17. Dezember 2018 16:50:17 CET Sebastian Riese wrote:
> XEP-0261 <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0261.html> uses "bytestream"
> for the overall Jingle session and "session" for the IBB session (at
> least it does so consistently). This is *extremely* confusing. For
> 
> example section 2.5 reads:
> > Whenever a party is finished with a particular session within the
> 
> bytestream, it SHOULD send an IBB <close/> as shown above. This applies
> to all sessions, including the last one.
> 
> > To close the bytestream itself (e.g., because the parties have
> 
> finished using all sessions associated with the bytestream), a party
> sends a Jingle session-terminate action as defined in XEP-0166.
> 
> This nomenclature is just wrong: The Jingle session manages multiple
> In-Band Bytestream sessions. If you close the Jingle session there may
> be zero or more bytestream sessions that are closed (and perhaps other
> transport sessions – Jingle does not prescribe uniform transports in a
> session).
> 
> If you all agree I would make a PR to fix this issue. My proposal is to
> use "session" for Jingle sessions and "bytestream" for IBB sessions, if
> this is deemed to be too confusing also, I could spell out "Jingle
> session" and "IBB session".

I suggest you take the silence as agreement.

kind regards,
Jonas

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