On 24 Mar 2026, at 14:17, Goffi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Le mardi 10 mars 2026, 16:04:40 heure normale d’Europe centrale Stephen Paul > Weber a écrit : >> I guess the idea is to not update or base on references and instead make a >> whole new element for this? Given our move away from fastening and other >> generic base XEPs this is maybe a fine idea. > > I think that I've missed the summit discussion on mention because I was sick > and left early. Probably some discussions also happened on xsf@ room, but > it's > hard for me to follow there. > > So it seems that we are ditching XEP-0372: References, can somebody explain > to > me the rationale for that? > > XEP-0372 was already specifying a kind of mention, but not as powerful as the > spec proposed here, however I want to understand why we would want to have 2 > specs for the same thing. > > I would love also to have the thoughts of Kevin here, as he is the author of > XEP-0372.
My summary is roughly that there’s stuff in the mentions spec it makes sense to talk about, but it also makes sense to use the references format for the reference part. /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
