XSF Communications Team - 2025-06-25

FYI https://nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMPP/

Indeed, I've just receive new grant to work on metadata reduction/serverless. I'll add a small text to the newsletter draft. Thanks emus for your sharp eyes.

For sure

Trung: > https://tails.net/about/contact/index.en.html#chat > i still see XMPP for users chat room ? It has now been removed too (exists but "now obsolete"). They are all matrix or irc now.

Abit sad...oh well

How to signup for and use irc over tor? (Bridges don't work well enuff) This is the worst thing about Tails moving, IMO. AFAIK, you can't signup for irc or matrix using Tails. Hmm

Hi, will anyone go to the FroSCon?

emus, goffi I just added the Nlnet entry to the pad

Libervia has received NLnet funding to ‘Implement RELOAD within XMPP and reduce medata exposure’ (Serverless and Metadata Reduction for XMPP). This project will reduce metadata exposure and enable decentralized, serverless communication. Work will focus on encrypting roster (contact list) information by implementing changes in the Libervia ecosystem through Tor integration to anonymize connections and reduce IP tracking, as well as roster end-to-end encryption. A second focus area is advancing serverless communication by implementing the RELOAD protocol XEP-0415 leveraging end-to-end authentication via XEP-0416 and XEP-0417. This project strengthens XMPP and Libervia’s privacy and availability, enabling their use in environments where servers may be unavailable or inaccessible.

Feel free to edit at will

I already did some editing but I couldn't get it under 8 lines of text.

> emus, goffi I just added the Nlnet entry to the pad ❤️ ↺

Also, added the entry for the update of Version 0.1.4 of XEP-0284 (Shared XML Editing), but the XEP entry still shows Version 0.1.3 (2021-03-04)

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0284.html

I'll edit the title, I think it's better to says "Implement serverless (with RELOAD) and reduce metadata (<- typo here, it's written 'medata') exposure" as "RELOAD" is really technical term and serverless is widely understood.

But I'm done for today.

Also RELOAD is only part of the thing, there is also E2E authentication (XEP-0416/XEP-0417), and side work.

but it's specified in description already.

anyway, thank you for adding the entry.

Yes .. that's why I left that part of the text at the end. Also added links to everything

goffi, done: 'Implement serverless (with RELOAD) and reduce metadata exposure'

- [Libervia](https://libervia.org/) has received [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl/) funding to 'Implement serverless (with RELOAD) and reduce metadata exposure' ([Serverless and Metadata Reduction for XMPP](https://nlnet.nl/project/ServerlessXMPP/)). This project will reduce metadata exposure and enable decentralized, serverless communication. Work will focus on encrypting roster (contact list) information by implementing changes in the Libervia ecosystem through [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) integration to anonymize connections and reduce IP tracking, as well as roster end-to-end encryption. A second focus area is advancing serverless communication by implementing the RELOAD protocol [XEP-0415](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0415.html) leveraging end-to-end authentication via [XEP-0416](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0416.html) and [XEP-0417](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0417.html). This project strengthens XMPP and Libervia’s privacy and availability, enabling their use in environments where servers may be unavailable or inaccessible.

Great, thanks gnemmi!

You are super welcome goffi !! 🤗🤗🤗 ✏