Presence and IntComm WG

[Neal McBurnett <>]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:29:40PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
> >I noted that the history that I got in our multi-user chat session
> >today was out-of-order.  It looks like it is a known bug, not even
> >limited to chat rooms.  See
> >
> > http://www.igniterealtime.org/issues/browse/JM-835
> >
> >Surprising....
> 
> Which server implementations are used along the communications path?

Thanks again for your prompt and informative input!!

I'm connected using via my gmail jabber id to 

which I think runs wildfire.  (And I'm using gaim v 1.5.1cvs).
Is it possible to check server version information remotely?

> The XMPP specifications require that a server must guarantee in-order 
> delivery through a server, but not all implementations comply because 
> it's non-trivial.

I see this related thread also:
 http://blogs.sun.com/mridul/entry/in_order_delivery_in_xmpp

but a more authoritative spec reference or discussion would be of
interest.

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/