[JDEV] A Protocol Dev. Carification

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at jabber.org
Wed Apr 30 22:00:51 CDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 07:43:25PM -0700, Rachel Blackman wrote:

> > Of course, it is not possible to programmatically account for the SHOULD
> > behavior on results and errors; the whole point of the 'id' is to enable
> > endpoints to match asynchronous requests with their responses. Perhaps
> > something to bring up to the XMPP working group?
> 
> Hrm...you're right.  But that seems like a pretty significant oversight;
> either ID is useless (if you can't expect it to be returned) or it's
> declared wrong.  If id /isn't/ required, then Exodus and a number of other
> things (including my own Jabber implementation for Trillian), which rely on
> ids for a few things are in violation of the specification.
> 
> Urgh. :/

Hey Rachel, no "urgh" necessary, the I-D author reads this list once in
a while and can fix these little oversights quite easily. :)

Peter

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