On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Philipp Hancke <fi...@goodadvice.pages.de> wrote: > Am 25.07.2014 um 09:22 schrieb Kevin Smith: > >> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Georg Lukas <ge...@op-co.de> wrote: >>> >>> XEP-0045, section 7.4 <http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#message> >>> states: >>> >>> "Note well that for tracking purposes this service assigns a new 'id' to >>> each message it generates (here using a UUID as defined in RFC 4122 >>> [18])." >>> >>> I suggest changing that line to: >>> >>> "The service SHOULD reflect the message with the same 'id' that was >>> generated by the client. If the client did not provide an 'id', the >>> server SHOULD generate one 'id' and use it for all reflections of the >>> same message (e.g. using a UUID as defined in RFC 4122 [18])." >> >> >> I agree with the intention, but I think making a breaking change to >> xep45 at this point wouldn't be appropriate. > > > Well, this is not using normative language, just giving a rationale (which > is better than any SHOULD without a rationale at least). > > However, I don't understand what the service gains by tracking ids here.
No, me neither. As I said earlier, I think (at the moment) 45 would have been better to have required stable ids across reflection from the start. But as it doesn't, and I don't think requiring them at this stage is appropriate. /K
