+1. It sure would be great to kill off vcard-temp after all these years.

Another benefit: vcard4 is extensible and thus can be used in a wide
variety of specialized applications (gaming, IoT, etc.).

Peter

On 1/19/19 1:44 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to see XEP-0292: vCard4 Over XMPP advanced. Since
> popularity and deployment of XEP-0084 appears to be on the rise, much
> thanks to XEP-0398, now seems like a good time to dust it off and finish
> it.
> 
> One benefit over vcard-temp is improved and configurabel access control,
> if XEP-0222 & 0223 are supported. vcard-temp has historically been
> completely public, something that may not be clear to users.
> 
> I'm not sure if the IQ based protocol defined is really worth it over
> simply storing the vcard4 data per XEP-0222, but it's not hard to
> implement or use, so it might be okay.
> 
> The current version of Prosody includes support for XEP-0292 in the form
> of a plugin that provides access to the relevant PEP node via the IQ
> protocol described as well as an exception that allows such requests to
> pass trough MUC. There is also an implementation of XEP-0398 that
> translates between vcard-temp and vcard4+xep84.
> 
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