On June 11, 2021 10:12:31 PM GMT+02:00, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 17:10, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >* "No person has any automatic right to join a chatroom, or write a XEP." >in ยง3 ought to be something else, since writing a XEP doesn't need the >XSF's permission as such. > >I'm not sure what this can be, but I accept that writing private extensions >using the XEP format and publishing them independently might be considered >"writing a XEP", and that's not within the XSF's purview.
I don't agree here. Hairsplitting below. Yes, people are free to create XMPP extensions (lowercase), and I believe it is one of the better strengths that people can do so without permission from anyone, as long as they use namespaces in a certain way to not conflict with others. This is part of the distributed "DNA" of XMPP, and emphasizes that the XSF is just one moving part in our community and not the end all and be all of things XMPP. However, I also strongly believe that using the term XEP implies that it is part of the XSF XEP series, and that an XMPP extension in whatever format only becomes a XEP when it is accepted as Experimental, becoming part of the series and receiving a number. I think XEP-0001 is clear on the above and the custom of calling things in the inbox as proto-XEP affirms this. -- ralphm _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
