Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-11 Thread Kevin Smith
Council discussed this in their meeting this week (as you'll have seen from the forwarded minutes), and agreed not to publish as a XEP at the moment. The overriding concern is that the XSF does not have the expertise or experience to define what Council believes to be a new security model. Assumin

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Nov 9 14:46:19 2011, Jehan Pagès wrote: > For changing passwords, on the other hand, I don't see a need to change from > XEP-0077. I don't know if this is because servers or clients (or both?) do not implement this part of XEP-0077 but I personally never saw any client where I could

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Nov 9 14:46:19 2011, Jehan Pagès wrote: > We can't do this here. It's not an impossible concept, but the place to > define such a standards would be in the IETF's Kitten working group, not > here. (In case anyone wonders, Kitten = "Son of Cat"; Cat = "Common > Authentication Technol

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-09 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed Nov  9 13:52:06 2011, Jehan Pagčs wrote: >> >> Re-reading a little this topic before passing to council vote, I add >> my voice to this point too! That's another good reason why ad-hoc >> commands are probably not adapted. The mor

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Nov 9 13:52:06 2011, Jehan Pagès wrote: Re-reading a little this topic before passing to council vote, I add my voice to this point too! That's another good reason why ad-hoc commands are probably not adapted. The more I think about it, the less I think ad-hoc fits password modificatio

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-09 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 21.09.2011 20:10, schrieb Remko Tronçon: > >> Putting account management in ad-hoc commands means that we don't >> expect clients to have a "Change password" button, but instead go >> through the server provided "Change account set

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-11-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi all, sorry for the very delayed answer! I won't display any excuse because I guess you don't care. ;-) Anyway I'll try to answer the various remarks on the topic. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > The intent of this is good; something providing similar capabilities to >

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-10-05 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: > Council decided to postpone accepting/rejecting this protoXEP until a > sense of community opinion had been gathered. > > What seem to me like reasonable objections to this approach have been > given - are there people remaining silent who

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-10-04 Thread Matthew A. Miller
On Oct 4, 2011, at 13:44, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Tue Oct 4 18:07:04 2011, Kim Alvefur wrote: >> Would it make any sense whatsoever to have account registration at the SASL >> level? > Possible, but not something for the XSF to do directly; we could talk to the > IETF about it of course, tho

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-10-04 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Oct 4 18:07:04 2011, Kim Alvefur wrote: Would it make any sense whatsoever to have account registration at the SASL level? Possible, but not something for the XSF to do directly; we could talk to the IETF about it of course, though. My suggestion was just to bypass the whole thing

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-10-04 Thread Kim Alvefur
Would it make any sense whatsoever to have account registration at the SASL level? Just a thougt. - Original message - > Council decided to postpone accepting/rejecting this protoXEP until a > sense of community opinion had been gathered. > > What seem to me like reasonable objections t

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-10-04 Thread Kevin Smith
Council decided to postpone accepting/rejecting this protoXEP until a sense of community opinion had been gathered. What seem to me like reasonable objections to this approach have been given - are there people remaining silent who believe this is the right approach and should be moved onto the st

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Matthew A. Miller
On Sep 21, 2011, at 13:24, Remko Tronçon wrote: >> If it's a well-defined FORM_TYPE, a client could do something fancy for the >> well-defined fields (e.g. {urn:xmpp:acct-mgmt:0:dataforms:update}newpass >> gets a special strength meter nearby), and an "advanced" >> button/tab/overlay/etc for t

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Remko Tronçon
> If it's a well-defined FORM_TYPE, a client could do something fancy for the > well-defined fields (e.g. {urn:xmpp:acct-mgmt:0:dataforms:update}newpass gets > a special strength meter nearby), and an "advanced" button/tab/overlay/etc > for the non-standard things. Right, but I always found thi

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Matthew A. Miller
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:10, Remko Tronçon wrote: >> For both account management and registration, using the ad-hoc framework >> seems most sensible - it would allow us maximum flexibility as well as >> near-instant deployment. > > I don't think registration fits the ad-hoc use case, because it is

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Alexander Holler
Am 21.09.2011 20:10, schrieb Remko Tronçon: Putting account management in ad-hoc commands means that we don't expect clients to have a "Change password" button, but instead go through the server provided "Change account settings" dialog. It takes away power from the client (it won't be able to a

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Remko Tronçon
> For both account management and registration, using the ad-hoc framework > seems most sensible - it would allow us maximum flexibility as well as > near-instant deployment. I don't think registration fits the ad-hoc use case, because it is a special action outside of the general session flow, wh

Re: [Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Kurt Zeilenga
On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > Registration does indeed pose a problem - I see three strategies for dealing > with it: I think registration is divorce-able from management of existing accounts, and should be divorced. I suspect there is little actual demand from deployers

[Standards] Account Management protoXEP

2011-09-21 Thread Dave Cridland
The intent of this is good; something providing similar capabilities to XEP-0077, but in a consistent manner, seems like a good and useful thing to be working on. However, I don't think this is the right approach, to the extent that I don't think this is fixable. Addressing the issues that