[Standards] [Fwd: [Council] meeting minutes, 2007-05-16]

[Mridul Muralidharan]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
> 
>> A small queey - If the ping comes to a user's bare jid - what is the 
>> server expected to do ? Can we disallow that since pings are e2e ?
> 
> Why disallow it? 

Not necessarily disallow - but is there any usecase for it ?
Server will not be able to fwd it to any end point and wont be able to 
process it on the jid's behalf - and so would need to end up with an 
error anyway right ?

The reason I asked was because the proposed change rightly mentions 
about full jid - but is silent about bare jid. Just wanted to get it 
clarified.


> The server replies on behalf of IQs sent to a bare JID, 
> so you're not finding out anything useful by pinging a bare JID, but I 
> see no reason to say you MUST NOT do so.
> 
> And pings are not necessarily e2e.

e2e in the sense : from sender to recipient (except for errors ofcourse).
For example, for client/component to client case : can a server respond 
on behalf of a jid ? (Assuming presence was divulged already and server 
is confident of the connectivity of the jid).

If not - that was the meaning of e2e I was referring to - if yes, it 
becomes interesting !

Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,
Mridul

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