[Standards] XEP-0163, v. 1.1pre1

[Richard Dobson]

Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> Dnia 04-04-2007, śro o godzinie 14:53 +0100, Richard Dobson napisał(a):
>> it may not be fire and forget 100% of the time, but I don't see 
>> any problem with that
> 
> I thought the intention behind publish+configure is to make it
> fire'n'forget.

Yes, and Peter's suggestion makes it stay fire'n'forget the majority of 
the time, but takes care of the bad problems you get when the 
configuration starts getting changed (something which as far as I can 
see should be very rare, if ever).

>> id rather have a tiny bit 
>> of extra complexity to ensure the private data is likely to stay private 
>> than risk it being inadvertently made public by accident.
> 
> I will propose it again:
> publish + (configure and discard-on-reconfigure)

But then you get into problems where you think you have published it, 
but in fact because the configuration is different you haven't.

Richard