[Standards] Messages to unsubscribed contacts and resources

[Justin Karneges]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 1:08 pm, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> On Wt, 2007-12-11 at 15:59 -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > It's not what clients do currently, though.  I'm not sure whether it's
> > wise to encourage such a fundamental change at this point.
>
> It's not a change... yet.
> There are clients that do one, and others that do the other, by the
> authors preference.
>
> RFC3921bis will be encouraging only one approach. And then it will be
> hard to change it.

It was decided long ago that replies should go to the full JID.  It was even 
documented in RFC 3921 (see Section 4.1) from 2004.  No need to bring the bis 
into this.  This is absolutely fundamental Jabber behavior that has existed 
for as long as I've been involved (2001?).

It's a "SHOULD", so you're probably free to deviate with the understanding 
that you're deviating. :)

-Justin