[Standards] XEP-0115 is harmful and should be deferred

[Joe Hildebrand]

In order to iuse PEP for caps, you need to publish a different item
for each resource, since each may have different caps.  At that point,
again, there is no advantage over caps with the server optimiazation
on.


On 7/6/07, Daniel Noll <daniel at noll.id.au> wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007 09:00, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > Robin Redeker wrote:
> > > And I think announcing capabilities seems to be a great application
> > > of PEP/PubSub. I can already imagine the client setting:
> >
> > PEP depends on XEP-0115. Circular dependencies seem like a bad idea.
>
> To point out the obvious, there are two non-circular solutions:
>
>   1. Assume that caps is present and make PEP depend on caps (current
> option)
>
>   2. Assume that PEP is present and make caps depend on PEP
>
> PEP is more complicated than caps though...
>
> Daniel
>


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Joe Hildebrand