[Standards-JIG] Stanza Acking and Connection Pings

[Pavel Šimerda]

On 2006-05-19 17:54, Kevin Smith wrote:
> On 19 May 2006, at 13:21, Pavel Šimerda wrote:
> > Alright, what's going on now? Could we re-join forces split between
> > Justin's
> > and Dave's proposals? And have something finished?
>
> I'm currently sitting in the jep-ack camp but appreciate that Dave's
> proposal also covers /not/ retransmitting un-acked but received
> packets upon reconnection in some circumstances. This could probably
> be merged into jep-ack reasonably easily and then you'd have a
> proposal with the best parts of both I think (and I'd be happy).
>
> /K

I believe it could be... it needs the server and client only to count the 
sent/recieved stanzas... and to remember the number until the reconnect 
occurs.

Server remembers this number (along with resource name to avoid confusion 
between clients). Client remember this number (probably only runtime with no 
storage needed - or temporarily stored). And it also remembers the un-acked 
stanzas.

Client MAY ask the server for the last connection stanza count (it needs it 
only if there really were some un-acked stanzas). Substracts it from it's own 
last connection stanza count. And the resulting number is the number of 
undelivered stanzas (N). Now the client know that last N stanzas were 
undelivered.

The question is, which stanzas should be re-send and which should not. Can you 
re-send a presence stanza in a new connection? What about iq queries and 
replies? 

This can be used with jep-ack or separately. Please, correct my mistakes.

Pavel




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