On Mon, 11 May 2026 at 16:14, Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]>
wrote:

> >> I agree that finished specs as submitted and accepted by the XSF should
> be
> >> covered by the IPR.
> >
> >OK, so you're not accepting any ProtoXEP unless it is "finished"? As in,
> >what, Stable quality or Final?
> >
> >I'd like to understand what it'll take to get something published.
>
> In general my guiding principle is to avoid things we've seen in the past
> like MIX, COIN, JinglePub, Inbox, XEP-0284, etc where the spec is
> published
> (and in some cases lots of work goes into the spec or multiple other specs
> end up notionally depending on it) but it never actually goes anywhere.
> Especially in this case I hope we can agree that a repeat of the MIX
> process
> is not likely to get us to a better (for the ecosystem) result.
>
>
There is an irony here in that I'm using an Inbox implementation every
day... But I accept that Inbox is tricky to do unless you either ignore
MUC, or have some kind of bare jid based occupancy. Gosh, if only there
were a spec for that, eh?

But Inbox works absolutely fine with muclight or muc-sub.


> So what does "finished" mean? Does it mean ready for Final? Certainly
> not.
> But I'd hope it means that the primary design considerations and latent
> ambiguities have been squeezed out and that there is some reason to
> believe
> that adoption by (some non-trivial part of) the ecosystem is going to
> happen.
>
>
Isn't that Stable? If not, what's the purpose of Experimental?

We explicitly ask about implementation intention in the Last Call, for
example, and not before.

Dave.
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