In this example, Romeo (romeo@montague.lit) is joining the MUC room orchard@chats.capulet.lit. To use MUC Fast Reconnect for future joins, the initial MUC join presence stanza must also contain a presence-session element in the namespace "urn:xmpp:presence-session:0" with no attributes.

If a client has indicated that it's using MUC Fast Reconnect on its session, the MUC service MUST annotate the presence stanzas it sends with elements containing a presence-session element with namespace "urn:xmpp:presence-session:0", a "session" attribute and an "id" attribute, described below.

Attributes:

• session: This is an opaque, string, identifier provider by the MUC room and may be used by the server to distinguish between stanzas that will potentially have the same id, but be for logically different rooms (e.g. because the room was deleted and another created with the same name).
• id: This, paired with the session, gives a unique identifier for every presence update.

If Romeo then leaves the room and wants to rejoin, his client can attempt a fast rejoin by requesting only the presence changes since he was last an occupant, by including in his room join stanza a presence-session-resume element, again with namespace "urn:xmpp:presence-session:0", and the session and id attributes of the last presence it received from the room prior to leaving.

When the MUC room receives a room fast rejoin request, it must either first send an 'unavailable' presence from the room's bare JID, followed by a normal full join, as above, or instead of sending the full presence list for all occupants, only send those stanzas needed to get from the state represented by the client-provided session and id to the current state. All the presence stanzas (apart from the unavailable one used to reset state before a clean join) MUST contain the presence-session element as described above.

The room SHOULD only send the unavailable presence, forcing a sending of all the occupants' presence, if it would either result in fewer transmitted stanzas than sending the necessary delta, or it is unable to provide the necessary delta (such as if too much time has past and it no longer has records of the old state).

XEP-0045 provides several ways to limit the history/context messages received on join, but none of these allow a client to accurately request only the messages they have yet to see. This is done by the MUC annotating each message with an id (like in presence, above), and the client using it instead of maxchars/maxstanzas/seconds/since from -45 when it joins. And here I've just stopped writing.