[Standards] Resource unbinding issue - RFC 3920bis

Tomasz Sterna tomek at xiaoka.com
Sat Oct 6 16:56:21 CDT 2007


Dnia 04-10-2007, Cz o godzinie 17:27 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre pisze:
> I gave this some thought before choosing <bad-request/>.
> 
> Basically there is a kind of philosophical issue here -- how does the
> existing implementation know that <unbind/> is a feature at all? IMHO
> <feature-not-implemented/> is appropriate when you have something like
> pubsub (XEP-0060), where the features are well-defined and you know if
> you don't support a given feature. But here the implementation doesn't
> know that <unbind/> means anything, so as far as it is concerned this
> is
> just a bad element that doesn't match the schema.

So, this basically jeopardizes the feature-not-implemented error.

Any packet for a feature that is not implemented in server does not
match the known schema.
And if a server knows it conforms to it's schema - it implements the
feature.


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