[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Roster Versioning

[Richard Dobson]

> +1. I can't see any reason for the spec to require more than a 
> increasing version number.

I would prefer if it were just an opaque string, certainly as far as the 
client in concerned there is no need for it to do anything other than 
store the most recent version identifier it has received and then return 
that to the server when required (i.e. at login), only the server needs 
to know what to do with it and this should certainly only be RECOMMENDED 
or SUGGESTED/MAYBE and not MUST. What would happen in cases were the 
version number needs to be reset to 0 because someone has such a busy 
roster that over time they exhast the maximum integer value?, or if 
maybe in future server implementors want to compress it somehow into hex 
or something similar, it would be far far better to leave this flexible 
and upto the server implementor on how they format the version identifier.

Richard