Good day.

I am in favour of standardizing storage of settings.

I am currently doing a similar thing with project Blasta, to store
settings per account.

Kind regards,
Schimon

On Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:25:40 +0200
Goffi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm forwarding this old message, as it has never been answered, and
> the author (namely Dwd) is more active these days.
> 
> PAM is very useful in Pubsub toolbox, and I would like to see this 
> specification in a better state :).
> 
> Thanks!
> Goffi
> 
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> 
> Objet : [Standards] XEP-0376 (Pubsub Account Management): some
> feedbacks Date : vendredi 15 avril 2022, 10:41:49 heure d’été
> d’Europe centrale De : Goffi <[email protected]>
> À : [email protected]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently implementing XEP-0376 both client and service side, and
> here are my feedbacks.
> 
> # Form:
> 
> - a small typo in example 1, it's "xmlns" ("s" is missing)
> - § 3.3 Unsubscribing: even if it's obvious, an explicit example
> would be welcome for unsubscribe too
> - there are a lot of questions on this XEP, I'm not sure if it's the
> best location for that, IMHO discussing this on standard@ would be
> more appropriate.
> - § 5 XMPP Registrar Considerations: even if it made me smile a bit,
> I don't think that XEP (beside humourous ones) is a location for this
> kind of jokes. It's not a big deal for experimental XEPs though.
> 
> 
> # Substance:
> 
> * § 3.5 auto-subscriptions and § 3.6 Filtering
> 
> I don't really understand the sentence "this implies that servers
> would gradually acrue any node type which the user has had a capable
> client at any time.". Could you formulate it more clearly or at least
> explain it?
> 
> Regarding auto-subscription, XEP-0060 is not great itself about it as
> it's mentioning "root collections" and "subsciption_depth" which are
> notions of XEP-0248 (and I don't think that there are many complete
> implementations of it, if any). But that's a topic which should be
> discussed on a different thread.
> 
> That put aside, I'm not sure that XEP-0376 should take care at all of
> auto- subscription regarding that we have already the filtering with
> +notify. This is done on a per-client basis, and if client wants to
> get says OMEMO public keys or user mood because it supports those
> features, I don't see  the need to keep track of it at the server
> level. Sure it's broadcast. To my experience this is not a problem: I
> use +notify to auto-subscribe when I want update from all users to
> which I'm presence subscribed, and if I want only events for a
> specific user/node, I use an explicit subscription (in which case PAM
> is useful).
> 
> Thus I would remove entirely § 3.5 and § 3.6, or replace them by a
> text indicating that PAM service ignores them and they work as usual
> with XEP-0060/ XEP-0163 auto-subscription and filtering.
> 
> This would make the whole thing simpler, but please explain me with a
> clear use-case if I'm missing something.
> 
> * § 3.7 interaction with MAM
> 
> I guess events should be archived normally by MAM (at least to be
> sure that all clients receive them correctly), and I really don't see
> the need to filter them out (that's only events about explicit
> (un)subscription to nodes, the traffic should not be high).
> 
> [this par below is forwarded from a follow-up email]
> 
> > * § 3.7 interaction with MAM
> > 
> > I guess events should be archived normally by MAM (at least to be
> > sure that   
> all clients receive them correctly), and I really don't see the need
> to filter them out (that's only events about explicit
> (un)subscription to nodes, the traffic should not be high).
> 
> Second thought: are you talking about the (un)subscribe notification
> as explained at § 3.2, or XEP-0060 items events? In the later case
> yes, filtering is probably desirable: if my client doesn't handle
> blogging, it probably doesn't want all the XEP-0277 items
> notifications.
> 
> 
> 
> That's it for now. It's a useful addition to pubsub in XMPP, and I
> hope to see more implementation in close future.
> 
> Cheers
> Goffi
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