[Standards] dialback: piggybacking

[Mridul Muralidharan]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> I received some extensive feedback on server dialback from someone 
> offlist, and the commenter complained long and loud about the many 
> ambiguities involved in the so-called "piggybacking" method described here:
> 
> http://www.xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-saintandre-rfc3920bis-02.html#dialback-reuse 
> 
> 
> The suggestion is to remove piggybacking. I would like feedback from 
> people on this list about whether that is desirable.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Peter
> 

Totally agree.
I dislike piggybacking - and even had code which actively drop any s2s 
connection which attempts it.
Dialback is already complex enough with the edgecases, tls, pre-1.0 and 
what not without adding more to it.


Mridul