[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Client Information

[Richard Dobson]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 6:02 AM, Tobias Markmann <tmarkmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/clientinfo.html
>>>       
>> What are the enhancements of this XEP compared to XEP-0092? Why should
>> one implement this XEP and not XEP-0092? Since both XEPs seem to do
>> the same job I think there is missing a passage which is when to user
>> or even if XEP-0092 is even to use in future.
>>     
>
> The aim was to wrap this up inside caps hashes, so you wouldn't a)
> need to query frequently, or b) pollute the presence packets with more
> info, which was what other proposals did.
>   
Plus even if you wern't implementing caps but were implementing disco 
you would get the version information for "free" without having to 
separately query for it.

Richard