On 28 Sep 2016, at 21:18, Tobias M <tmarkm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 28 Sep 2016, at 18:38, Kevin Smith <kevin.sm...@isode.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 27 Sep 2016, at 10:06, Tobias M <tmarkm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 27 Sep 2016, at 00:33, Kevin Smith <kevin.sm...@isode.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> However, it has little discussion on why there is this restriction. While 
>>>>> it certainly is a MUST for security reasons in MUC situations where 
>>>>> different full JIDs are different accounts (i.e. associated to different 
>>>>> bare JIDs), it is less so for security reasons in the non-MUC case.
>>>> 
>>>> I think one can construct other situations like MUC, where multiple people 
>>>> control different resources of the same bare JID, but maybe that’s 
>>>> pathological (although I’m not sure).
>>> 
>>> If multiple people would use different resources of the same bare JID, this 
>>> would also lead to strange UX regarding Carbons where the user will see 
>>> messages as sent which they didn’t write. I think this is a rather rare 
>>> edge case we shouldn’t put much efforts in to support.
>> 
>> That may well be true.
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I’ve shortly discussed it with other community members in the XSF 
>>>>> chatroom [1], but thought I’d bring it up here for discussion with a 
>>>>> wider audience, while providing a short summary of the room discussions 
>>>>> below:
>>>>> 
>>>>> When would a client send an correction for a message from another account 
>>>>> resource? Two cases come to mind:
>>>>> a) Carbons, editing a message from another client when you switch clients 
>>>>> mid-discussion.
>>>> 
>>>> Certainly in this case we’d want to be able to correct them.
>>>> 
>>>>> b) Reconnection, where a client has the server assign it a resource.
>>>> 
>>>> Which is more or less the same instance as (a), I think.
>>>> 
>>>>> What do you think? Do you have further comments on this issue?
>>>> 
>>>> I think there’s also a concern that different resources may use the same 
>>>> IDs. Perhaps we should be moving away from using stanza IDs for this, and 
>>>> move towards something like 359 (although 359 has the client-id, stanza-id 
>>>> oddity which we should probably fix at some point and just use multiple 
>>>> stanza-id stamps with the relevant ‘by’ instead).
>>> 
>>> Aren’t stanza IDs supposed to be UUIDs, i.e. unique? XEP-0359 could provide 
>>> a solution if we can’t rely on unique and stable stanza IDs. It’s not 
>>> discussed in XEP-0359, but I guess it’s the reason for its existence, that 
>>> stanza IDs may only be stable/unique regarding one XMPP stream and might 
>>> change in a multi-hop routing like C-to-S -> S-to-S -> S-to-C or C-to-S -> 
>>> MUC -> S-to-C.
>> 
>> Sadly not, 6121 says
>> " It is up to the originating entity whether the value of the 'id'
>>   attribute is unique only within its current stream or unique
>>   globally.”
> 
> So, basically XEP-0308 should adopt XEP-0359 in a new version (probably 
> requires namespace version bump) and use the sender's ID for replacements? Is 
> that what you suggest?

It doesn’t seem to be a stupid approach, to me, at least. It has the advantage 
of working in MUCs that do stanza id rewriting, too, as well as working through 
MAM and Carbons, etc.

/K
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