Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Brendan Taylor
Throwing another idea out there; since we're not *really* using namespaces anyways, could we just reject elements and attributes with colons in their names? (besides the xml: attributes, of course) IIRC XMPP entities aren't expected to understand namespace prefixes anyhow. (I've never written a pa

Re: [Standards] Namespace well-formed data.

2008-10-23 Thread Curtis King
On 23-Oct-08, at 5:40 PM, David Waite wrote: And what for? So that you use XML correctly, and can do productive things rather than dealing with DoS vectors. What about the opposite DoS vector, send a server valid, well formed XML, well formed XMLNS, but with 1s of xmlns prefixes, p

Re: [Standards] Namespace well-formed data.

2008-10-23 Thread Curtis King
On 23-Oct-08, at 8:05 PM, Justin Karneges wrote: I agree with the other David, that long-term we need to be able to use standard XML tools. Please explain why? It makes no sense for the xmpp community to base it's protocol on what XML works with some set of XML tools. What if their interru

[Standards] Pubsub node creation

2008-10-23 Thread Brett Zamir
In Pubsub XEP-0060, in example 113, for a request to create a node, there is this: However, just above, it states: "There are two ways to create a node: 1. Create a node with default configuration for the specified node type. 2. Create and configure a node simulta

Re: [Standards] Namespace well-formed data.

2008-10-23 Thread Justin Karneges
On Thursday 23 October 2008 16:33:13 Dave Cridland wrote: > there's some suggested RFC text as a prize. While I'm in the camp that feels the server should sanitize the stream, I agree with all of your proposed text. The fact is that today the majority of servers don't sanitize, so clients absol

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Curtis King
On 23-Oct-08, at 3:12 PM, Artur Hefczyc wrote: Hi, If the server had to validate XMLNS as well it would significantly affect the server performance and memory consumption as it would need to keep information about XMLNS for stanzas currently parsed for all network connections. Good point. I

Re: [Standards] Namespace well-formed data.

2008-10-23 Thread David Waite
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Dave Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My personal view is that stream termination is not really acceptable, but > sometimes implementors have little choice, and that the next easiest to > implement is to essentially ignore undeclared prefixes, treating them

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Curtis King
On 23-Oct-08, at 11:58 AM, Sergei Golovan wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Curtis King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One the of the big strength of the xmpp model is that servers can route and do all the heavy lifting for the business rules, etc by just parse the outer parts of the

[Standards] Namespace well-formed data.

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Cridland
Let's quickly remind ourselves of the key issues. I apologise for this message being so damn long, but for people who read all the way, there's some suggested RFC text as a prize. 1) Protecting Implementations in the current environment: Whether or not we want this to happen, servers can cu

[Standards] XEP-0174 v. 1.3rc2

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
I have finally found the time to review the DNS-SD and Multicast DNS specifications on which XEP-0174 (Serverless Messaging) depends. I have found a number of small points that could be clarified in XEP-0174 based on this review, along with the larger issue of the TXT record format. In addition, I

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Artur Hefczyc
Hi, I am the server developer so let me add something to the discussion even if this is not a direct response to anybody post. I think I understand the point but my opinion is if people want to push more and more processing on the server to make live easier on the client side then the server ins

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Marcus Lundblad wrote: > tor 2008-10-23 klockan 14:12 -0600 skrev Peter Saint-Andre: > >> XEP-0038 has not been touched in years. If someone wants to take over >> authorship of that document (or wants to author a replacement), please >> let me know. >> >>> Also, maybe the :jabber: smiley should be

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Marcus Lundblad
tor 2008-10-23 klockan 14:12 -0600 skrev Peter Saint-Andre: > XEP-0038 has not been touched in years. If someone wants to take over > authorship of that document (or wants to author a replacement), please > let me know. > > > Also, maybe the :jabber: smiley should be replaced by :xmpp: ... :) >

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Marcus Lundblad wrote: > tor 2008-10-23 klockan 16:07 +0100 skrev Kevin Smith: >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jonathan Schleifer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I thought about creating a XEP that defines a basic set of emoticons >> http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0038.html#sect-id2261834 >

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Marcus Lundblad
tor 2008-10-23 klockan 16:07 +0100 skrev Kevin Smith: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jonathan Schleifer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought about creating a XEP that defines a basic set of emoticons > > http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0038.html#sect-id2261834 > > Does define a core se

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Oct 23 19:58:32 2008, Sergei Golovan wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Curtis King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One the of the big strength of the xmpp model is that servers can route and > do all the heavy lifting for the business rules, etc by just parse the outer > parts

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Sergei Golovan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Curtis King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One the of the big strength of the xmpp model is that servers can route and > do all the heavy lifting for the business rules, etc by just parse the outer > parts of the xml stanza. XML is such a wondeful language where y

Re: [Standards] well-formedness

2008-10-23 Thread Curtis King
On 21-Oct-08, at 6:47 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Curtis King wrote: On 20-Oct-08, at 7:37 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Please understand that even if we use MUST instead of SHOULD with respect to namespace-awareness, the existing servers are not going to be left behind. Newer servers a

Re: [Standards] Jingle HTTP

2008-10-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu Oct 23 11:48:09 2008, Dirk Meyer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had a strange discussion with a co-worker yesterday about the >> abuse of >> HTTP. Well, to make a long story short: >> http://www.tzi.de/~dmeyer/jingle-http.html >> >> This is a very early draft and only shows the

Re: [Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought about creating a XEP that defines a basic set of emoticons http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0038.html#sect-id2261834 Does define a core set of smilies, but no-one's updated the XEP recently. /K

[Standards] Smilies and XMPP

2008-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Every network has it's static set of smilies. Sure, this isn't very customizable. But it solves the issue of different smilie codes. Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate static smilie sets for networks, but I think we could need some standarization on the smilie codes. What do you think? I

Re: [Standards] Jingle HTTP

2008-10-23 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Oct 23 11:48:09 2008, Dirk Meyer wrote: Hi, I had a strange discussion with a co-worker yesterday about the abuse of HTTP. Well, to make a long story short: http://www.tzi.de/~dmeyer/jingle-http.html This is a very early draft and only shows the very basic idea. What do you think?

[Standards] Jingle HTTP

2008-10-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, I had a strange discussion with a co-worker yesterday about the abuse of HTTP. Well, to make a long story short: http://www.tzi.de/~dmeyer/jingle-http.html This is a very early draft and only shows the very basic idea. What do you think? IMHO it could be useful. Dirk -- When nothing can p

Re: [Standards] "connected" and "available" resources

2008-10-23 Thread Fabio Forno
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that's a spec bug: > > s/available/connected/ I think so. For me it makes more sense if in points 1 & 3 of paragrah 11 we use "connected" (after that I can start filing tickets across the different server imp