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XMPP Roundup 13: Specifications
Welcome to the Specification part of the XMPP Roundup #13, your irregular news from the XMPP community. There has been a long time since we have not reported about specifications moves. Here is a short summary of what happened since September.

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Linked Process

Linked Process, mentioned in the last XMPP Roundup, has got a new protoXEP.

All the XEPs in PDF

Tobias Markmann wrote a XEP publishing mechanism that generates the XEPs in PDF format, with syntax highlighting for example stanzas. You can now download each one of them, read them while offline, and distribute them to you customers, partners, and best friends. You can also get the full pack as a tarball: xepbundle.tar.bz2.

Tobias also added checkboxes that enable the filtering based on the XEP status.

XEP version comparison

Tobias and Waqas Hussain have also been working on a tool to compare XEP versions that recently went live.

Thank you very much Tobias and Waqas!

Review team at work: Multi-User Chat

The freshly created Review Team is working heavily on the venerable XEP-0045.

New XEPs

These are the new XEPs accepted as 'experimental' by the Council:
 * XEP-0276: Temporary Presence Sharing
 * XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP
 * XEP-0275: Entity Reputation

Proposed XEPs


 * XEP-xxxx: Jingle Relay Nodes

Updated

Updates have been committed to the following XEPs:
 * XEP-0189: Public Key Publishing
 * XEP-0166: Jingle
 * XEP-0167: Jingle RTP Sessions
 * XEP-0177: Jingle Raw UDP Transport Method
 * XEP-0249: Direct MUC Invitations
 * XEP-0215: External Service Discovery
 * XEP-0273: Stanza Interception and Filtering Technology
 * XEP-0260: Jingle SOCKS5 Bytestreams Transport Method
 * XEP-0261: Jingle In-Band Bytestreams Transport Method
 * XEP-0234: Jingle File Transfer
 * XEP-0253: PubSub Chaining
 * XEP-0268: Incident Reporting
 * XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH)
 * XEP-0227: Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers
 * XEP-0251: Jingle Session Transfer
 * XEP-0181: Jingle DTMF
 * XEP-0175: Best Practices for Use of SASL ANONYMOUS

Deferred specs

These XEP have been deferred, since they have not been touched for a long time:
 * XEP-0152: Reachability Addresses
 * XEP-0225: Component Connections
 * XEP-0186: Invisible Command
 * XEP-0214: File Repository and Sharing
 * XEP-0254: PubSub Queueing
 * XEP-0252: BOSH Script Syntax

Last call


 * XEP-0227: Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers
 * XEP-0226: Message Stanza Profiles

Draft


 * XEP-0270: XMPP Compliance Suites 2010

This is it. This Roundup is over. Please feel free to contribute news items from your XMPP-related projects, code and specs, so that we can cover these on this blog.

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