[Standards] Re: [jdev] XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities

[Joe Hildebrand]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
>>> Forgot to add, change name from ver & ext to verh and exth ?
>> Why?
>
> Conflict with existing clients - too many of them in the wild dont  
> use these semantics.

Others have already responded to this, but just to reinforce, I *did*  
talk about backward compatibility.  Existing clients would continue  
to work just fine. New clients just have to be able to detect other  
new clients, to know if they are supposed to be able to check the  
hash.  Presumably, new clients could choose by policy to ignore un- 
hashed caps from old clients.