[jdev] Best ways for a JID to advertise what services it uses?

[Matthew Wild]

On 6 October 2010 21:41, Sergey Dobrov <binary at jrudevels.org> wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 03:13 AM, Matthew Wild wrote:
>> On 6 October 2010 18:46, Sergey Dobrov <binary at jrudevels.org> wrote:
>>> On 09/21/2010 06:15 PM, Tuomas Koski wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> (I have been thinking about this quite a while now and I think it's
>>>> better to ask from the smarter men)
>>>>
>>>> what are the best ways for a JID to advertise what services it uses ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I thinking about this question too. And I believe that this question
>>> should be solved by extend of the XEP-154 "User profile".
>>>
>>> Suddenly, the status of the XEP is Deferred. I found that it would be
>>> very useful for me...
>>>
>>> Anyway, there is really necessity in some way to do such discovery.
>>>
>>
>> It occured to me that this issue actually relates to a recurring
>> problem we have in XMPP. When an account is removed from a server we
>> remove subscriptions to their contacts also. Unfortunately there is no
>> standard way to know what services an account may have also been
>> associated with, and so no way to notify them of the accounts
>> deletion.
>>
>> I don't have any other input for the actual protocol yet, I'll leave
>> that to someone else for now :)
>
> But what about transports? It's not enough to remove subscription on
> them. We need to unregister also. Otherwise a new JID's owner will be
> allowed to access old owner's legacy accounts...
>

I know, that's practically what I just said - if I failed to do it
clearly, sorry :)

Matthew