Hello!

Section 5.2 of XEP-0060 'Publish-Subscribe' describes how disco#items is used to discover nodes. Most of that section describes node discovery in node hierarchies and collection nodes.

In version 1.12 of XEP-0060 text about collections was moved to XEP-0248 'PubSub Collection Nodes'. This specification contains a smaller paragraph on node discovery (which is also numbered 5.2).

I would like to see the complexity of XEP-0060 be reduced. I believe that most, if not all of its section 5.2 should be moved to XEP-0248 and removed from XEP-0060.

The suggested change should not affect backwards compatibility, as it doesn't result in a change of behavior: as far as I can see, the text only applies to hierarchies and collection nodes. The change therefore is permissible even considering XEP-0060 is Stable.

Is there any objection to this? What would relevant Node Discovery content for XEP-0060 be (other than a reference to XEP-0248)?

Kind regards,

  Guus