Due to the federated and extensible nature of XMPP it's not possible to remove a message with full certainty and a retraction can only be considered an unenforceable request for such removal. Clients which don't support message retraction are not obligated to enforce the request and people could have seen or copied the message contents already.
If a client or service implements message retraction, it MUST specify the 'urn:xmpp:message-retract:0' feature in its service discovery information features as specified in &xep0030; and the Entity Capabilities profile specified in &xep0115;.
+If a client implements message retractions, it MUST specify the 'urn:xmpp:message-retract:0' feature in its service discovery information features as specified in &xep0030; and the Entity Capabilities profile specified in &xep0115;.
+Similarly, a server that is aware of message retractions and will therefore ensure that they're archived for later retrieval (e.g.via &xep0313;), MUST also advertise the 'urn:xmpp:message-retract:0' feature.
It might be desirable to remove the retracted message from a &xep0313; service, while still recording the fact that it once existed, in order to aid clients in synchronizing their archives. To do this, the archiving service MAY replace the retracted message contents with a 'tombstone'.
-The original message contents (i.e. the <body/> and any related elements which might leak information about the original message) get replaced with a <retracted/> element which MUST include its <origin-id/>, so that clients can match it to the subsequent retraction (which MUST also be stored in the archive).
+ +A service which supports tombstones MUST advertise the 'urn:xmpp:message-retract:0#tombstone' feature in its Service Discovery responses.
+ +When replacing the original message with a tombstone, the original contents (i.e. the <body/> and any related elements which might leak information about the original message) get replaced with a <retracted/> element which MUST include the <origin-id/>, so that clients can match it to the subsequent retraction (which MUST also be stored in the archive).
The <retracted/> element SHOULD also include a 'stamp' attribute indicating the time at which the retraction took place.
As with other XEP-0313 archived messages, the &xep0203; <delay/> element is used to indicate when the original message was received.