[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: Client Information

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Tobias Markmann wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 10:14 AM, Richard Dobson <richard at dobson-i.net> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Well, then the XEP should say something about that or even better that
> this protocol should be used instead of XEP-0092 since it's generally
> bad to have two standards with the same or nearly the same purpose. In
> the end the target of a standardization organization is to have just
> one protocol for a certain purpose otherwise there is implementation
> overhead to remain interoperability.

Yes, I'll add some text about that. I wrote it in a hurry last night as 
a follow-up to the XEP-0115 discussion.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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