24 Apr
2026
24 Apr
'26
7:43 a.m.
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.