[JDEV] id attr in message packets

[Wing, Oliver]

Sean Wheeler wrote: 

> foo       bar        bar 
> id=1      id=2             id=3 
> thread=a  thread=a   thread=a 
> 
> It is unclear whether messages 2 or 3 are 
> a reply to message 1 or not. The alternate 
> approach is 

Just use multiple threads. Each new message (which isn't a reply) has a new
thread ID. 

Jermey Nickurak wrote: 

> The ID attribute should be preserved for 
> sending and receipt of the first message, 
> but it need not (and probabbly should not) 
> be preserved in the reply. (Keeping the id 
> in the reply as a default behavior would 
> likely lead to keeping the same id in the 
> reply to the reply, which would man 
> bar at media would be sending multiple messages 
> with the same id) 

The ID tag is not for message tracking, but rather for internal tracking by
a jabber entity. It is therefore not necessary for the remote entity to
worry about using the original message ID.

Regards, 

-- 
Oliver Wing