On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:17:03AM +0530, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
Jack Moffitt wrote:
Currently in XEP-0045, roomnicks are case-sensitive. To be precise
roomnicks are handled according to the Resourceprep profile of
stringprep:
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#bizrules-jids
This means that the following roomnicks are all different:
StPeter
stpeter
STPETER
Some people have pointed out that this can be confusing to end users.
Not only this, but it's very easy to steal someone's identity when
they are not there. You just log in with their normal nick.
At Chesspark we make all public rooms non-anonymous and we always show
the full jid or (if they are in your roster) the roster nick for that
person. That way no one is ever confused who is who. So we've
basically solved this in the client. All this nick stuff stuff is so
IRCish anyway. It's nice if what you want is an anonymous room, but
for everything else, it's just a mess IMO.
After trying several solutions we found that this was least confusing
to everyone and we have gotten no complaints except for the occasional
jerk that signs up with a name like st.peter or stpeter_, but there's
little you can do about that but ban the offenders.
jack.
Unless rooms are not anonymous, clients have no way to validate who the
participants are anyway - so it is not really stealing : you dont
register the nick, it is not tied to your jid in any way.
In anonymous rooms you dont know who the participants are - so relying
on nicks to give a hint of the identity would be wrong.
I guess the problem here is to explain this to the users.
Robin
