[Standards] XEP-0115 redux

[Joe Hildebrand]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>
> 8.5 Friendly Name
>
> The 'name' attribute of the service discovery <identity/> element  
> enables a responding application to specify the "friendly name" for  
> its node. However, this attribute is excluded from the hash  
> generation method, primarily because it is human-readable text and  
> therefore may be provided in different localized versions. As a  
> result, its inclusion would needlessly multiply the number of  
> possible hash values and thus the time and resources required to  
> validate values of the 'ver' attribute. However, a receiving  
> application MAY send a service discovery information request to a  
> particularly JID+node combination in order to determine the friendly  
> name, then cache the result for that JID+node only.

Can we have a MUST on the caching, please?  (I'd be willing to back  
down to SHOULD if need be)

> I have moved this from the Internationalization Considerations (and  
> have deleted that section) since this seems to be only tangentially  
> related to i18n.

+1

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Joe Hildebrand