On 24 Mar 2026, at 14:17, Goffi <goffi@goffi.org> wrote:
Hi,
Le mardi 10 mars 2026, 16:04:40 heure normale d’Europe centrale Stephen Paul Weber a écrit :
I guess the idea is to not update or base on references and instead make a whole new element for this? Given our move away from fastening and other generic base XEPs this is maybe a fine idea.
I think that I've missed the summit discussion on mention because I was sick and left early. Probably some discussions also happened on xsf@ room, but it's hard for me to follow there.
So it seems that we are ditching XEP-0372: References, can somebody explain to me the rationale for that?
XEP-0372 was already specifying a kind of mention, but not as powerful as the spec proposed here, however I want to understand why we would want to have 2 specs for the same thing.
I would love also to have the thoughts of Kevin here, as he is the author of XEP-0372.
My summary is roughly that there’s stuff in the mentions spec it makes sense to talk about, but it also makes sense to use the references format for the reference part. /K