XEP-0077 password change

Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:31:49 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

It seems to me that XEP-0077 is not RFC compliant in section 3.3 
specifically it says:

> In order to require additional information before changing the password, 
> the server or service SHOULD return a Data Form in the error stanza:

However https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6120#section-8.2.3 says:

> An IQ stanza of type "error" MAY include the child element
> contained in the associated "get" or "set" and MUST include an
> <error/> child

That is to say, it may not contain any child other than an <error/> child 
and possibly an echo of the request.

Now, one could imagine a syntax for embedding a data form in an <error/> but 
this is not what XEP-0077 describes.

Has anyone implemented this part of XEP-0077 in practise? If I return the 
error with this form will anyone respect it? Do we need to care that this is 
not RFC compliant or can we squint and say that it's a sort-of echo of the 
request but with more fields to fill out...

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