Re: [xmpp] WGLC of draft-ietf-xmpp-websocket-02

Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com> Fri, 06 June 2014 19:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xmpp] WGLC of draft-ietf-xmpp-websocket-02
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Sorry for the delay. I just returned from a very disconnected vacation.

On May 27, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

> Connection managers are trusted server components, so the administrators of the service are aware that there is a CM in the mix, but the server need not be (all it knows is that sessions have been created and that some trusted entity did so).
> 
>> Is it assumed to
>> implement this draft?
> 
> The server doesn't really need to implement the websocket aspect of things, since that's handled by the CM.
> 
>> Are we requiring special behavior of the
>> server, without the server knowing it needs to do it?
> 
> Not as far as I can see.

Is there any reason to mention connection managers at all? Unless I missed something, the draft only mentions them parenthetically, but it does so in a normative statement. It's starting to sound like an implementation detail that doesn't need anything normative, if any mention at all.