[Standards] BOSH (was HTTP Binding) namespaces

[Mridul]

Mridul wrote:
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
>   Makes sense.
> Cant we not just import the client namespace to httpbind namespace 
> without needing to copy ? Or is there some problems in doing that ?

Ok, please ignore this...

- Mridul

> 
> Regards,
> Mridul
> 
> Ian Paterson wrote:
>> Alex Gnauck and Mridul have independantly pointed out the fact that 
>> all XEP-0124 implementations (including my own) do not add 
>> "jabber:client" namespace declarations to the stanzas they pass 
>> through (despite the fact that all the examples in XEP-0124 include 
>> the namespace). This is for a very good reason, since the connection 
>> manager is then able to forward everything transparently between the 
>> client and server. However the result does not conform with the 
>> schemas (or examples).
>>
>> To allow transparent forwarding while staying true to the schemas, I'm 
>> considering editing the schemas and the examples in XEP-0124 and 
>> XEP-0206:
>>
>> 1. The schema defined in XEP-0124 will be renamed from 
>> 'http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' to 'urn:xmpp:bosh' and all the 
>> examples will be changed accordingly.
>>
>> 2.The schema defined in XEP-0206 will be renamed from 'urn:xmpp:bosh' 
>> to 'http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' and I will *copy and paste* 
>> the content of the 'jabber:client' schema and the content of the 
>> schema defined in XEP-0124 into that schema!
>>
>> Therefore all the stanzas in the examples in XEP-0124 will include 
>> "jabber:client" default namespace declarations, but these will be 
>> omitted from the examples in XEP-0206 since everything will be covered 
>> by the default namespace. In addition the "xmpp:" prefix will be 
>> omitted from the examples in XEP-0206.
>>
>> These changes will ensure that all existing (and future) 
>> implementations magically become fully compliant with *XEP-0206* (even 
>> if not with the schema defined in XEP-0124).
>>
>> In the future the schema in XEP-0206 will need to be updated to 
>> reflect any changes to the 'jabber:client' schema or to the schema 
>> defined in XEP-0124, but those are likely to be stable.
>>
>> Finally, I could swap the names of the two documents, so any 
>> references to XEP-0124 or literature that claims an implementation is 
>> XEP-0124 compliant do not have to be changed.
>>
>> What do implementors think?
>>
>> - Ian
>>
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