Re: [xmpp] 3921bis: delivery of messages addressed to bare JIDs

["Ben Schumacher" <[e-mail]>]

On 01/29/2010 05:39 AM, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Hm, this sounds to me like killing resources all together. Why not let 
> the user decide? For example, if the user gives all resources the same 
> priority, all resources get the message. If the user decides to use 
> different priorities, only the one with the higehst gets it (if 2 are 
> sharing the highest prio, both should get it).
>
> I think priorities and resources are one of the killer features of 
> XMPP and should not be removed or crippled.

Priorities and resource-based routing are killer features only if you 
happen to be a member of the relatively small XMPP developer community 
-- for IM users it's just confusing and unnecessary. They want to login 
a client and get instant messages.

Missing IMs because you accidentally left yourself logged in on another 
machine, or because Client X has different default priority settings 
than Client Y is inconvenient, annoying and prone to error. These is 
nothing in the wording change that's going to _force_ implementations 
into a different behavior, but with luck it'll encourage servers and 
clients to move towards more explicit solutions to choosing sessions for 
message delivery, i.e. privacy lists, SIFT and Mine-ing.

My opinion, anyhow.

Ben