[Standards-JIG] how to handle IQ while invisible

[Richard Dobson]

Le Boulanger Yann wrote:
> when I ask jabber:iq:version to a contact that is invisible, request is
> forwarded to the client. I think it's normal as ejabberd can't know that
> someone is invisible (it's just a privacy list), but what should his
> client do ?
> If it just doesn't answer, I can know he is invisble (if he were really
> offline server would have answerd with a recipient-unavailable error
> message)
> 
> the only solution for the client would be to ask server to reply instead
> of the client.
> 
> it's of course the same thing for others iq.
> 
> So invisible privacy list is useless, it's easy to discover who is
> invisible (ok we need to know the resource, but it's not too hard, it
> never changes)

Why couldnt the client respond with recipient unavailable, just as the 
server would?

Richard