[Standards] UPDATED: XEP-0199 (XMPP Ping)

[Mridul Muralidharan]

XMPP Extensions Editor wrote:
> Version 0.3 of XEP-0199 (XMPP Ping) has been released.
> 
> Abstract: This document defines an XMPP protocol extension for sending pings over XML streams.
> 
> Changelog: Added use case for client pinging server; changed namespace to conform to XMPP Registrar requirements, with namespace to be issued upon advancement to Draft; added section on discovering support. (psa)
> 
> CVS Diff: [currently unavailable]
> 
> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0199.html
> 

IIRC, the bis spec was modified to allow for entities to send presence 
probes : it used to be only server who could do that.
With xmpp ping xep, can we remove that requirement and go back to 
3920/3921 behavior ?

Regards,
Mridul

PS : Hopefully I am not horribly outdated with the rapid changes 
happening to specs.