[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.

Gr.  Having email issues this morning.  This is a reply to Kevin's  
desire for new text.

<suggestion>
However, a receiving application MAY send a service discovery  
information request to a particularly JID+node combination in order to  
determine the friendly name, but if it does so then it MUST cache the  
result for that JID+node combination.
</suggestion>

I really wanted to cache just based on the node, but "there's an  
attack!" for people poisoning others' client names.  I don't think  
that's really a concern, but perhaps that is over-practical.

-- 
Joe Hildebrand