On 05/29/2008 5:10 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Wed May 28 23:24:13 2008, XMPP Extensions Editor wrote: >> Version 0.1 of XEP-0243 (XMPP Server Compliance 2009) has been released. >> >> Abstract: This document defines XMPP server compliance levels for 2009. >> >> Changelog: Initial published version, incorporating Council feedback. >> (psa) >> >> Diff: N/A >> >> URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0243.html > > A few notes: > > 1) I talked to Isode's marketing department, and the consensus was that > having "Basic" and "Intermediate" doesn't make much sense. Having > "Standard" and "Advanced" is likely to get more buy-in - nobody wants to > call themselves Basic (It sounds like "Rubbish"), and Intermediate > implies an Advanced somewhere. (The goal here would be that Standard is > relatively easy for newcomers to get to, Advanced is where we want > everyone to get to soon - inserting an Intermediate is okay later).
Ah yes it's all about marketing. :) Does "standard" make it sound like anything else is "non-standard"? How about "core" and "advanced"? > 2) Also from our marketing dept: It's only a certification level if > there's a certificate. Compliance levels are okay, even without formal > compliance testing. What exactly is a certificate? A piece of paper or a little icon that you slap on your website or something else? We won't have formal compliance testing anytime soon I think, but if we put some effort into the interop network then we can at least have something stronger than mere self-reports if you can't be certified without participating there. > 3) In other news, I'm still not sure about In-Band Registration being > required anywhere. It's not because it's hard to do, it's because I > don't think it's worth having a required feature that won't be needed > nor used by the vast majority of deployments. I can see it's a good plan > for public servers, of course. Is it still in the client suites? I thought I had removed it from the server suites. > 4) I think that, realistically, we should promote deployment of PEP - > therefore, this ought to be there. Changing Intermediate to Advanced > helps here, since we can push boundaries further. /me nods Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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