[Standards] XEP-0154 and XEP-0084

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2007, at 19:06, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
>> I'm currently working on implementing XMPP features into libpurple. 
>> I've successfully implemented PEP and User Mood (XEP-0107).
> 
> Great!
> 
>> Now I'm planning on XEP-0154 (User Profile) and XEP-0084 (User 
>> Avatar). Those protocols are still experimental, though. Is it wise to 
>> implement them right now? Why are they still experimental after 4 and 
>> 3 years of development respectively, are major changes expected?

No major changes are expected. They have not been high priorities. I 
agree with Kevin that it would be good to push the avatar spec to Draft. 
I'm less sure about profiles yet (see below).

> Avatar would be good to implement, no question. That's not had 
> implementations (until now) because previously it was pubsub (rather 
> than pep), which some people had issues with and never implemented, and 
> then because it was pep and there were no pep servers. Now there are 
> both pep servers and clients, expect 84 to pop up places (like Psi).

Feedback would be appreciated from developers who have implemented this 
spec.

> 154's trickier. It exists because people have issue with vcard-temp, but 
> despite this most people are happy with it and continue to use it.

Agreed. I have not seen a great deal of demand for this since people 
seem happy enough with vcard-temp. But vcard-temp has a lot of problems 
in theory and has been "temp" since 1999. Maybe it's time for something 
better. :)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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