FYI, we've been using references for this for quite some time:

<message to="user2@example.com" from="user1@example.com" id="ogp1">

<body>

Сool movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/

</body>

<reference xmlns="https://xabber.com/protocol/reference" begin="11" end="36" type="mutable"/>

<ogp xmlns="https://xabber.com/protocol/ogpurl="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/">

<meta property="og:site_name" content=”IMDb”/>

<meta property="og:type" content=”video.movie”/>

<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock" />

<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" />

<meta property="og:description" content=”Directed by Michael
Bay. With Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris,

John Spencer…” />

<meta property="og:image" content="https://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg"/>

</ogp>

</reference>

</message>



On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 13:38, Daniel Gultsch <daniel@gultsch.de> wrote:
Version 0.1.0 of XEP-0511 (Link Metadata) has been released.

Abstract:
This specification describes how to attach metadata for links to a
message.

Changelog:
Accepted as Experimental by council vote (dg)

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0511.html

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