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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. It has been a long time since we have reported on specifications changes. 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.
Proposed XEPs
This XEP has been proposed for standardization:
New XEPs
These are the new XEPs accepted as 'experimental' by the Council:
Last call
These XEPs are in last call before going to a 'draft' status:
Draft
This XEP has been accepted as a 'draft':
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
- XEP-0136: Message Archiving
- XEP-0085: Chat State Notifications
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
- XEP-0168: Resource Application Priority
- XEP-0197: User Viewing
- XEP-0196: User Gaming
- XEP-0195: User Browsing
- XEP-0194: User Chatting
That's 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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