In its meeting last week, the XMPP Council discussed the issue of potentially changing the status of XEP-0078 (Non-SASL Authentication) from Deprecated to Obsolete. The Council had consensus to make this change, but as XEP Editor (no longer Council Chair, ha!) I'd like gauge the consensus of the list regarding this change.
Naturally, a server, client, or library could continue to support the jabber:iq:auth protocol even if the XEP that documents it is Obsolete, and deployed services could still offer the feature (after all, there are plenty of obsolete clients in the world and a server might want to enable those clients to connect). However, my sense is that this change would indicate that the XSF thinks it is no longer appropriate for new software to include support for jabber:iq:auth, and instead to support only SASL authentication. Here are some relevant links: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0078.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0001.html#states-Deprecated http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0001.html#states-Obsolete If you have concerns about this change, please speak up. Thanks! Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
