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 clients and server use privacy lists (XEP-0016 + XEP-0126), but > they're complicated and I'd prefer to deprecate them if possible (that's > really a separate discussion topic). > > Years ago I defined a "better" solution in XEP-0186, but we never pushed > it forward from Experimental to Draft. I don't know if any clients and > servers include support for XEP-0186, but if so it would be good to > know. In any case, I'm wondering if folks are interested in seeing > XEP-0186 move to Draft so that we can deprecate XEP-0018 and XEP-0126.
I think 186 is the least offensive way to do invisibility that we have, although it does have bits of ick in there (MUST enforce UI behaviour). /K
