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On 9/12/11 5:37 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose XEP-0084 User Avatar to be included for the
> advanced client in the 2012 compliance suite. The vcard-temp-based
> avatars are a huge legacy that I'd be very delighted to see gone.
> User Avatar is already supported in all libpurple-based clients and I
> believe in others as well (unfortunately, Psi uses an incompatible
> old version of the protocol), and it's much easier to implement than
> XEP-0153. I'm fine with vcard-temp being in there until XEP-0292 is
> no longer experimental, but avatars should move forward.

+1 here. (However, we dropped the ball on XEP-0302.)

> Right now, the Facebook and GTalk servers only support XEP-0153,
> which is very unfortunate.
> 
> By the way, I think it's a bit strange to require PEP in the advanced
> client, but not a single PEP-based XEP. A client that supports PEP
> but no protocol based on it is not distinguishable from a client that
> does not support PEP at all.

Agreed.

XEP-0292 has some PEP features in there, but we probably can't require
that until 2013 or 2014 (although I'd like to kill off vcard "temp" as
soon as possible).

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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