[Standards] LAST CALL: XEP-0216 (XMPP Intermediate IM Server 2008)

[Peter Saint-Andre]

JD Conley wrote:
>> PSA Wrote:
>>> Right. So I think you're arguing that we should make JID Escaping
>>> required in Basic Server 2008.
>> I'm a bit confused. I actually thought this was a client-side XEP.
> 
> Well, the server has to process it as well, as it has to send it to the
> external service (LDAP, IMAP, whatever) un-XEP-escaped and then escaped
> in whatever format the service needs.

Right. It's really more for server-side gateways to other systems (e.g., 
if using an existing email user database to generate JIDs) than for 
native XMPP servers. In a fully native XMPP system, support for JID 
Escaping is purely client-side.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
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