[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Character counting in message bodies

[Kevin Smith]

On 8 Dec 2020, at 22:13, Sam Whited <sam at samwhited.com> wrote:
> I still think the data on the wire should describe the other data on the
> wire, not some higher- level "decoded” representation

Agree 100%. References et al. need to calculate how the data are going to be encoded on the wire, not some high level abstraction. Decoding TLS is very expensive and I shouldn’t have to do that before I’m able to work out what the text being referenced is.

;)

/K