[Standards] Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: Emoji Markup

A personal, non-editor, non council note. I’m wondering if we should consider SIMS to be dead and should just use stateless file sharing (and simplify the XEP a bit). One criticism we get occasionally is "lack of direction" if we as community or we as council can decide that Message markup and stateless file sharing is what we want to do we can get rid of some unnecessary flexibility.

This seems backwards to me. SFS is just a shallow clone of SIMS but with less namespace reuse after all. Why would we lend legitimacy to something like that?

From the PoV of this new XEP it doesn't matter if you use either of those things. Anything hash based (which is almost everything) works.