[jdev] Presence Subscription to nonexistent contact

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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On 11/5/12 2:47 PM, Daniel Dormont wrote:
> Reading through RFC 6121 more thoroughly, I now see that section
> 8.5.1 summarizes exactly what the server is supposed to do: 
> http://xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc6121.html#rules-localpart-nosuchuser
> 
> I guess my question is why. If a server is allowed to (and
> ejabberd does) send a service-unavailable response for messages
> where the user is not found, why can't it do that for presence
> subscriptions?

Good question. Right now I see no immediate harm in allowing
service-unavailable in those situations, and we might decide to make
such a change if we work on 6121bis, but personally I need to think
about it further when I'm not in the middle of an IETF meeting.

/psa


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