[Standards] Re: SIMS and SFS, was: Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: Emoji Markup

This is the quote right here. Says it doesn't like what was done in SIMS and so this XEP exists to change that. I didn't know anyone was really doing thumbnails but sure that's another very visible use if so. No one has to implement Jingle File Transfer if all they want is to parse this metadata element. The implementat the metadata element. If they happen to implement Jingle FT they can possibly share some code for both cases but certainly they don't need any of the rest of Jingle for SIMS use. Are there odher restrictions of concern than hash? Jingle requires hash because it was considered essential to the generic case of transferring a file, but if we no longer consider that essential I expect we want to remove this requirement from Jingle as well. Name, size, description, mime, and hash are basically everything we have in jingle and in sfs and are also in metalink. I understand that at this point in history maybe there are reasons not to use metalink (we could have used their hash element everywhere but already have our own in so many XEPs by now that ship has sailed, for example, and so would be a bit odd). -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See <http://singpolyma.net> for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph