Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-30 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/29/12 10:16 AM, Goffi wrote: It seems that it's not possible to be visible to only a roster group with XEP-0186 (except by sending directed presence to each jid individually). For me it's an important point do manage visibility at the roster group level, this is possible with

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Wild
On 29 May 2012 16:35, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I'm not a big fan of invisibility, but if we're going to do it then we might as well do it right. Some clients and servers use XEP-0018, but it violates the core XMPP specs, which seems like a bad idea. Some clients and

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I'm not a big fan of invisibility, but if we're going to do it then we might as well do it right. Some clients and servers use XEP-0018, but it violates the core XMPP specs, which seems like a bad idea. Some

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On May 29, 2012, at 09:35, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I'm not a big fan of invisibility, but if we're going to do it then we might as well do it right. Some clients and servers use XEP-0018, but it violates the core XMPP specs, which seems like a bad idea. Some clients and server use

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Matthew Miller linuxw...@outer-planes.net wrote: On May 29, 2012, at 09:35, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I'm not a big fan of invisibility, but if we're going to do it then we might as well do it right. Some clients and servers use XEP-0018, but it violates the

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On May 29, 2012, at 10:04, Kevin Smith wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Matthew Miller linuxw...@outer-planes.net wrote: On May 29, 2012, at 09:35, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I'm not a big fan of invisibility, but if we're going to do it then we might as well do it right. Some

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Philipp Hancke
XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being the client is in invisible mode. Of course that makes invisibility much less useful ;-)

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being the client is in invisible mode. Of course that makes

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Goffi
G'day, It seems that it's not possible to be visible to only a roster group with XEP-0186 (except by sending directed presence to each jid individually). For me it's an important point do manage visibility at the roster group level, this is possible with privacy lists, not with XEP-0186.

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Wild
On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being the client is in invisible mode. Of course that makes

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/29/12 10:02 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I'm not a big fan of invisibility, but if we're going to do it then we might as well do it right. Some clients and servers use XEP-0018, but it violates the core XMPP specs,

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being the client is in

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/29/12 10:16 AM, Goffi wrote: G'day, It seems that it's not possible to be visible to only a roster group with XEP-0186 (except by sending directed presence to each jid individually). For me it's an important point do manage visibility at the roster group level, this is possible

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Wild
On 29 May 2012 17:53, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Miller
On May 29, 2012, at 10:53, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:53, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Wild
On 29 May 2012 18:03, Matthew Miller linuxw...@outer-planes.net wrote: On May 29, 2012, at 10:53, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke fi...@goodadvice.pages.de wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/29/12 10:12 AM, Philipp Hancke wrote: XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126. Thoughts? I'd note that in 3.1.1. the server MUST NOT send presence probes when being the client is in invisible mode. Of course that makes invisibility much less useful ;-)

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Kevin Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2012 18:03, Matthew Miller linuxw...@outer-planes.net wrote: On May 29, 2012, at 10:53, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 5/29/12 10:36 AM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:12, Philipp Hancke

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Philipp Hancke
Am 29.05.2012 19:03, schrieb Matthew Miller: RFC 6121 specifies probes be sent 'from' a bare JID 'to' a bare JID. I think this limits the presence leak severely, but that's my interpretation (-: Well, yes. Unfortunately, my server has a much higher interest in keeping me informed about who

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Justin Karneges
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:09:27 AM Matthew Wild wrote: PS. and it'll only be a short time after that that a module is written to automatically send probes randomly while the user is offline... +1 for faster logins

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Matthew Wild
On 29 May 2012 18:57, Justin Karneges justin-keyword-jabber.093...@affinix.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:09:27 AM Matthew Wild wrote: PS. and it'll only be a short time after that that a module is written to automatically send probes randomly while the user is offline... +1 for

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Philipp Hancke
Am 29.05.2012 20:04, schrieb Matthew Wild: On 29 May 2012 18:57, Justin Karneges justin-keyword-jabber.093...@affinix.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:09:27 AM Matthew Wild wrote: PS. and it'll only be a short time after that that a module is written to automatically send probes

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Justin Karneges
On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 11:04:46 AM Matthew Wild wrote: On 29 May 2012 18:57, Justin Karneges justin-keyword-jabber.093...@affinix.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:09:27 AM Matthew Wild wrote: PS. and it'll only be a short time after that that a module is written to automatically

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Goffi
Le 29/05/2012 19:01, Peter Saint-Andre a écrit : So it sounds as if you're a target user for privacy lists. :) I'm not necessarily interested in forbidding or deprecating privacy lists, but in general I think they're complicated and that invisiblity and blocking are the most common use cases,

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/29/12 4:31 PM, Goffi wrote: Le 29/05/2012 19:01, Peter Saint-Andre a écrit : So it sounds as if you're a target user for privacy lists. :) I'm not necessarily interested in forbidding or deprecating privacy lists, but in general I think they're complicated and that invisiblity and

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-09 Thread Fabio Forno
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Peter Saint-Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabio Forno wrote: (sorry for the delays, but in the last two days of many standards_ml mails went into the spam folder :( ) Hopefully I just put an end to that! I think the problem comes mainly from the google talk

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-08 Thread Yann Leboulanger
Jonathan Schleifer wrote: Many argue that privacy lists are too complex for invisibility or blocking users. For example, the Pidgin developers. They complained that they need to implement privacy lists completely in order to achieve invisibility and blocking. IMO, we could change the XEP to

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-08 Thread Remko Tronçon
Easy: use XEP-0186 to go invisible and XEP-0191 to block users. : He was making a point against throwing away those XEPs and replacing them with privacy lists. cheers, Remko

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Andreas Monitzer
On Oct 06, 2008, at 18:08, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: Yes, I agree, privacy lists give us all we need for invisibility. Some might see this as abusing privacy lists, but IMO, that's what they are for. They are to block presence or messages to specific users and/or groups. And all users

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Pavel Simerda
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:02:24 +0100 Artur Hefczyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, While reviewing XEP-0186 just now, I noticed that when a resource goes invisible, its server must send presence of type unavailable from that resource. As far as I can see, when a contact's server receives

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Pavel Simerda wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:02:24 +0100 Artur Hefczyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, While reviewing XEP-0186 just now, I noticed that when a resource goes invisible, its server must send presence of type unavailable from that resource. As far as I can see, when a contact's

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Pedro Melo wrote: When I move to invisible, I don't want people to know that I'm invisible, so if someone in my rosters asks for last activity, the response should be consistent with my make-believe offline mode: the last-activity is the time of my logout. Right. Giving a radically

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Remko Tronçon
Imho this is not a protocol issue, but a client issue This has been discussed in length before, and the conclusion was that there is no user friendly *and* correct way to do invisibility on top of privacy lists, or any kind of simple operation (such as blocking). Psi has a 'simple' user

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Pavel Simerda wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:50:54 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: While reviewing XEP-0186 just now, I noticed that when a resource goes invisible, its server must send presence of

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Fabio Forno
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Andreas Monitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The privacy lists are very potent, but their complexity is just too much for mere mortals. Imho this is not a protocol issue, but a client issue: the interface should be designed better for hiding the complexity of

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Remko Tronçon wrote: Imho this is not a protocol issue, but a client issue This has been discussed in length before, and the conclusion was that there is no user friendly *and* correct way to do invisibility on top of privacy lists, or any kind of simple operation (such as blocking). Psi

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Pavel Simerda
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:50:35 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Pavel Simerda wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:50:54 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: While reviewing XEP-0186 just

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Pavel Simerda wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:50:35 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Pavel Simerda wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:50:54 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Fabio Forno
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Remko Tronçon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imho this is not a protocol issue, but a client issue This has been discussed in length before, and the conclusion was that there is no user friendly *and* correct way to do invisibility on top of privacy lists, or any

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Many argue that privacy lists are too complex for invisibility or blocking users. For example, the Pidgin developers. They complained that they need to implement privacy lists completely in order to achieve invisibility and blocking. IMO, we could change the XEP to include some reserved

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Fabio Forno wrote: (sorry for the delays, but in the last two days of many standards_ml mails went into the spam folder :( ) Hopefully I just put an end to that! I agree with the fact there is no general abstraction for privacy lists and there complexity is far beyond the capabilities of

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-07 Thread Pavel Simerda
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:58:59 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Pavel Simerda wrote: On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:50:35 +0100 Pedro Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Pavel Simerda wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:50:54 +0100

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-06 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: While reviewing XEP-0186 just now, I noticed that when a resource goes invisible, its server must send presence of type unavailable from that resource. As far as I can see, when a contact's server receives unavailable presence from the

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-06 Thread Artur Hefczyc
Hi, While reviewing XEP-0186 just now, I noticed that when a resource goes invisible, its server must send presence of type unavailable from that resource. As far as I can see, when a contact's server receives unavailable presence from the user (and if the user+contact have a two-way presence

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-06 Thread Remko Tronçon
Especially that this can be quite easily achieved with privacy lists I thought we did the contrary: introduce an invisibility extension because: a) Implementing this in a client using privacy lists is quite some work, is not atomic, has nasty corner cases that are hard to solve, and is even

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-06 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 06.10.2008 um 18:02 schrieb Artur Hefczyc: I thought we gave up with invisibility anyway. Especially that this can be quite easily achieved with privacy lists without those unwanted side effects. And privacy lists give us much more flexibility to set invisibility for a single user,

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2008-10-06 Thread Artur Hefczyc
Especially that this can be quite easily achieved with privacy lists I thought we did the contrary: introduce an invisibility extension because: a) Implementing this in a client using privacy lists is quite some work, is not atomic, has nasty corner cases that are hard to solve, and is even

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2007-08-28 Thread Kevin Smith
On 28 Aug 2007, at 02:49, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Kevin Smith wrote: FWIW, I don't agree with the notion that these random resources are a good thing Yes, you have previously expressed that opinion. :) Sorry, I'm not really trying to harp on, I realise this battle has been fought and lost

Re: [Standards] invisibility

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Kevin Smith wrote: On 28 Aug 2007, at 02:49, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Kevin Smith wrote: I think the solution is simple though; if the server isn't routing your presence to someone, it should reply to iqs on your behalf saying you're not there. This is consistent with the route people have

Re: [Standards] invisibility (was: Re: xep-0199 redundancy)

2007-08-27 Thread Kevin Smith
On 27 Aug 2007, at 17:28, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: We had a long long discussion thread about this a few months ago, as a result of which we modified rfc3920bis to recommend the use of random resource identifiers that are generated by the server, not the client. FWIW, I don't agree with the