[JDEV] Negative priority

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:39:46AM +1100, Robert Norris wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:21:29PM +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > m?n 2003-12-01 klockan 19.05 skrev Peter Saint-Andre:
> > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:23:16PM +0100, Magnus Henoch wrote:
> > > > XMPP IM states in section 11.3 that a resource with a negative
> > > > priority will not receive message or presence stanzas.  What will
> > > > happen to those stanzas instead?
> > > >
> > > > For example, if a client sets negative priority when the user is away,
> > > > will it receive notification of accumulated presence changes when it
> > > > sets a positive priority again, and similarly for messages?  Or is it
> > > > simply a bad idea to rely on such behavior?
> > > 
> > > Those stanzas get sent to /dev/null -- if you don't like that behavior,
> > > don't set your presence to a negative number. ;-) This functionality is
> > > mainly for non-chat nodes, rather than normal IM clients.
> > 
> > Oh :((( I had really been waiting for this in the servers since it would
> > make it possible to not have messages delivered to clients that are
> > away.
> 
> XMPP-IM-20 (not out yet, see the "ietf" module in JabberStudio CVS) has
> been updated. Messages will only be delivered to a client that has sent
> negative presence if the message is explicitly addressed to their
> resource - ie, they won't receive messages addressed to the user.
> 
> However, presence changes will go to all available sessions, as before.
> If it wasn't this way, then there'd be little point having negative
> presence - you might as well just not send it.

Yes, sorry, that was an overzealous copy-and-paste on my part.

FYI, there won't really be a draft-ietf-xmpp-im-20, since these little
corrections I'm making will probably just count as modifications
submitted under "Author's 48 Hours" when I get to do a final check on
the docs before they become RFCs.

Peter