[Standards] PEP private nodes

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Joe Hildebrand wrote:
> We've been talking here about how to break out of this discussion about 
> how to get private nodes correctly in PEP.  Here's another way to do it 
> other than the two that we have so far.
> 
> Whenever a client publishes the first item to a node that ends in 
> "+private", the server creates the node with a default access model of 
> "whitelist", with an empty list.  The intent is that these nodes SHOULD 
> stay private, but a client, at the explicit direction of a user MAY 
> change the access model.  I'm actually flexible on this last point; i'd 
> be happy to make that SHOULD a MUST, and take out the MAY.

That works for private nodes but does not address all the worries about 
difference of opinion regarding other nodes (geolocation or whatever).

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
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