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== XMPP Roundup 13: Specifications ==
== 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.
* [http://blog.xmpp.org/index.php/2010/02/xmpp-roundup-13-specifications/ Published]


This edition has been brought to you by Johann, Kevin, Will, Guillaume, Peter, and Nicolas.
== XMPP Roundup 14: Specifications ==
 
'''Publishing Tools'''
 
XSF member [http://ayena.de Tobias Markmann] has been doing great work on our publishing tools. In addition to improving the [http://xmpp.org/extensions/ primary XEP page] by enabling you to filter based on XEP type and status, he has developed a way for us to generate our specs 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 your customers, partners, and best friends. You can also get the full pack as a tarball: [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xepbundle.tar.bz2 xepbundle.tar.bz2].
 
[http://ayena.de Tobias] and Waqas Hussain have also been working on a [http://xmpp.org/extensions/diff tool to compare XEP versions] that recently went live. Thank you very much Tobias and Waqas!
 
'''Technical Review Team at work: Multi-User Chat'''
 
The newly-created [http://xmpp.org/xsf/teams/techreview/ Technical Review Team] is currently working to complete a thorough review of the venerable [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat]. The team is also taking on more responsibility for maintenance of existing specs and publishing of new ones. We'll have a full report on those efforts in the near future.
 
'''XEP Submissions'''
 
Because use of XMPP continues to grow, the XSF receives new XEP proposals on a regular basis. The latest submissions are:
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/jingle-nodes.html Jingle Relay Nodes]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/sic.html Server IP Check]
 
'''New XEPs'''
 
These are the new XEPs have been accepted as 'Experimental' by the [http://xmpp.org/council/ XMPP Council]:
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0275.html XEP-0275: Entity Reputation]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0276.html XEP-0276: Temporary Presence Sharing]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP]
 
'''Last Call'''
 
As XEPs move through the XSF's standards process, they are proposed for advance from 'Experimental' to 'Draft' (or 'Active' for informational specs). The following XEPs are in last call before moving ahead:
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0226.html XEP-0226: Message Stanza Profiles]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0227.html XEP-0227: Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers]
 
'''Moving to Draft'''
 
Since our last roundup, one XEP has been advanced to 'Draft':
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0270.html XEP-0270: XMPP Compliance Suites 2010]
 
'''Updated Specs'''
 
The XSF's specifications are living documents that are updated regularly as we receive bug reports, feature requests, implementation feedback, and discussion in our chatrooms and email lists. Since the last roundup updates have been committed to the following XEPs:
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0189.html XEP-0189: Public Key Publishing]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0166.html XEP-0166: Jingle]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0167.html XEP-0167: Jingle RTP Sessions]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0177.html XEP-0177: Jingle Raw UDP Transport Method]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0249.html XEP-0249: Direct MUC Invitations]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0215.html XEP-0215: External Service Discovery]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0273.html XEP-0273: Stanza Interception and Filtering Technology]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0260.html XEP-0260: Jingle SOCKS5 Bytestreams Transport Method]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0261.html XEP-0261: Jingle In-Band Bytestreams Transport Method]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0234.html XEP-0234: Jingle File Transfer]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0253.html XEP-0253: PubSub Chaining]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0268.html XEP-0268: Incident Reporting]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH)]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0227.html XEP-0227: Portable Import/Export Format for XMPP-IM Servers]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0251.html XEP-0251: Jingle Session Transfer]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0181.html XEP-0181: Jingle DTMF]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0175.html XEP-0175: Best Practices for Use of SASL ANONYMOUS]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0136.html XEP-0136: Message Archiving]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0085.html XEP-0085: Chat State Notifications]
 
'''Deferred Specs'''
 
At any one time, many XEPs are under consideration in the 'Experimental' state. If any given XEP is not updated in 12 months, its status is changed to 'Deferred'. There is no shame in being deferred, since that happens quite often. Since our last roundup the following XEPs have been deferred:
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0152.html XEP-0152: Reachability Addresses]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0225.html XEP-0225: Component Connections]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0186.html XEP-0186: Invisible Command]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0214.html XEP-0214: File Repository and Sharing]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0254.html XEP-0254: PubSub Queueing]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0252.html XEP-0252: BOSH Script Syntax]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0168.html XEP-0168: Resource Application Priority]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0197.html XEP-0197: User Viewing]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0196.html XEP-0196: User Gaming]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0195.html XEP-0195: User Browsing]
* [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0194.html XEP-0194: User Chatting]
 
That's it for this roundup. In the future we plan to post shorter but more frequent entries about the XSF's specs activity, so stay tuned for updates. And of course if you are especially interested in XEPs, you can join the [http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Standards mailing-list] or just read the [http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/ archives].

Revision as of 18:54, 22 February 2010

XMPP Roundup 13: Specifications

XMPP Roundup 14: Specifications