[jdev] S2S questions - from attribute and version support

[Vinod Panicker]

On 12/29/05, Norman Rasmussen <norman at rasmussen.co.za> wrote:
> Version=1.0 only requires the server to support features (rfc 3920,
> section 4.6), it does not require the server to support tls or sasl.
> My guess that is that if the both servers support TLS (via features)
> then do TLS.
>
> Just because you have TLS doesn't mean you don't have to dialback.
> The only time you SHOULD not do dialback is when you've authenticated
> via SASL. (rfc 3920, section 8.1)

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Does this mean that version 1.0 compliant servers can get away with
not supporting TLS+SASL?  I thought that was the whole point of
specifying version=1.0, since dialback is present in the RFC just for
legacy compliance.

Regards,
Vinod.