On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:40 -0400, Stephen Pendleton wrote: > I think the reasons are: > > - There is no reason have have stream restarts because the reasons > they were introduced ended up not to be correct. > - The protocol "looks" better. Fewer stanzas are needed during the > login/authentication process I believe. > - Some implementations will not need to throw away/reset their parsers > anymore. Currently this is necessary for all implementations that I > know of and those using the style of architecture I show below will no > longer need to do this because the XML parser will be presented with a > complete XML stream, instead of multiple ones. I don't think we should > be changing the core protocol based on implementations though, so this > is less important to me.
These are not compelling reasons to introduce a change to a protocol already in wide use. You cannot "clean up" an existing protocol, only make it messier by introducing transition issues.
