On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:32:39PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > Matthias Wimmer wrote: > > Robin Redeker schrieb: > >> I propose to rename the XEP to make clear that this escaping/unescaping > >> should > >> only happen in very rare cases (only at gateways or heavily specialized > >> client > >> frontends). And that the terms 'escaping' and 'unescaping' are replaced by > >> 'mapping' and 'unmapping', because thats what is happening here. > > > > +100 > > Well, it's interesting, on the ejabberd list today someone said they > have an existing database of 45k email users and they want to offer > Jabber services to that user population, but re-use the same usernames. > I'm sure they have some users in there with addresses containing > characters like single quote, e.g., tim.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] In which > case I bet that they'll be interested in using JID Escaping.
If they can live with the fact that clients like: psim gajim, kopete, pidgin, tkabber, ... http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml That clients like those display the guy as [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if they can teach their userbase that their JID contains \27 instead of '. > I really feel that this discussion is not going anywhere. The spec is > IMHO pretty clear. If you don't like the spec, don't implement it. I _certainly_ won't. But you are aware that you recommend every client author to implement XEP-0106? (Hint: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0211.html ) XEP-0106 is certainly useful, and noone says it should go away, I would just know WHO is supposed to implement it and in WHICH cases. Mriduls clarification in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig/16328 is pretty useful and I agree that the XEP-0106 partially lets shine through that it's not for everyone and in every occasion, but I'm afraid that with a 'RECOMMENDED' in XEP-0211 most client authors will try to implement it. But ok, lets stop here, I'm sure the client authors who want to implement XEP-0211 and like to also provide the recommended fields will read the mailing list. I will file a bug report against the first ordinary IM client that does unconditional unescaping of JIDs and displays the unescaped nodepart as main handle for a conversation. Ok, lets stop now really. Robin
