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

[Ian Paterson]

Mridul wrote:
> So queries for both bare jid and ns#ver will be supported (and return
> the same value) ? And all clients using newer spec would use bare jid I
> suppose ? (so that we can deprecate ns#ver and remove this in the future)
>   

Yes.

> But we do lose ability to enable/disable plugins without invalidating
> user's caps data... might be an acceptable tradeoff.
>   

Yes, if 'ext' is obsoleted, the hash value in the caps element will 
change whenever the supported features change (including when a plugin 
is enabled disabled).

But as you say, the tradeoff (for simplicity) might be acceptable, since 
the disadvantage (of more hash values) may be marginal.

- Ian