XMPP Council - 2012-11-28


  1. Kev

    I'm feeling rough. I'm not intending to miss it, but if I don't make it to Council it'll be because I'll have gone to bed.

  2. Tobias

    when is the meeting anyway? and what's on the agenda?

  3. Kev

    1600UTC http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fis.html

  4. stpeter

    howdy

  5. Tobias

    hi

  6. stpeter

    sorry about not adding this meeting to the calendar

  7. Kev

    I've poked Matt.

  8. Kev

    stpeter: I don't think we've needed it this week.

  9. ralphm

    Hello council people

  10. Kev

    Assuming Matt's coming out of autoaway when I poked him wasn't a lie.

  11. Kev

    Afternoon Ralph.

  12. ralphm

    ok

  13. Kev

    Hoorah. Bang on time.

  14. Kev

    1) Roll call.

  15. Kev

    I'm here.

  16. Tobias too

  17. m&m

    presente

  18. MattJ

    Present

  19. Kev

    And Ralph was here a moment ago, so I assume still is.

  20. Kev

    2) http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/fis.html

  21. Kev

    Accept as XEP?

  22. Kev

    I have reservations about this.

  23. Tobias

    which are?

  24. MattJ

    I'm all ears

  25. Kev

    Various. It's using urn:xmpp:mam, and I'm not sure why. It has no discovery. It requires changes to MUC rooms and MUC rooms doing magic things. It recommends massive fetches. It has client recommendations that aren't needed for interop. The Security Considerations are a bit light or misleading.

  26. Kev

    The lack of discovery and MUC interactions were the biggest ones I remember - it says it'll work in MUC but doesn't have any examples explaining how.

  27. stpeter notes that it was just posted yesterday so people might not have had a chance to read it

  28. ralphm

    Well, for publishing, only the URI thing is an issue. Which I was also just about to mention.

  29. m&m

    I know I did not have time to read it

  30. stpeter

    hi Jef!

  31. Jef

    hello

  32. Kev

    Hi.

  33. Kev

    So I'd feel more comfortable if it had a tidy-up before accepting it, but I'm not outright vetoing it like this. It does need work.

  34. Jef

    ok, so the MUC part needs work

  35. Kev

    I don't understand entirely the motivation for not referring to 135.

  36. Kev

    It is 135 I mean, isn't it?

  37. Tobias

    Kev, the file sharing one?

  38. Jef

    referring or reusing?

  39. Tobias

    http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0135.html

  40. ralphm

    I also want to point out XEP-0055 (Jabber Search)

  41. Kev

    It seems that reusing disco like 135 did would be appropriate.

  42. Kev

    Oh, yes, it uses 55, too, in an inappropriate way, I remember that now :)

  43. Kev

    (Adding new elements in the jabber:iq:search namespace)

  44. Jef

    how is it inappropriate? can it be fixed?

  45. ralphm

    Jef: the idea is that you use Forms for extending

  46. Jef

    aaah, I thought that could be done, for the xep

  47. m&m

    either the presets, or a form, not both

  48. Kev

    Jef: You have examples of using forms for extending, which is the right way of doing it, but you're also introducing new non-form items, which you can't do.

  49. Jef

    about the MUC part, I'm not clear exactly what needs to be addressed

  50. m&m

    and it's not actually returning search results

  51. Jef

    m&m, how come?

  52. m&m

    at least one of your examples is not

  53. m&m

    hrm

  54. m&m

    or maybe I'm blind this morning

  55. Kev

    I'll do a proper review of it when my head's in better shape, and send to the list. What are people's opinions on publishing?

  56. Kev

    I'm not in favour pre-cleanup, but won't block if everyone else is.

  57. m&m

    the namespace needs to be fixed for sure

  58. Tobias

    right...that collides with the mam xep, right?

  59. Kev

    Jef: How would you feel about us giving feedback on list, addressing that and resubmitting in a couple of weeks?

  60. ralphm

    In any case my stance, as always, is that many of these things can be fixed. Do I understand correctly, Kev, that you're saying that XEP-0135 should be able to fill the use case, and ask why this needs another spec?

  61. MattJ

    I'm fine for publishing after the namespace thing is fixed

  62. Jef

    Kev, I would like to have clear up the XEP-135 issue

  63. MattJ

    The rest I'm confident can be cleaned up

  64. Kev

    ralphm: I'm saying it's not clear to me why it couldn't, which isn't at all the same thing :)

  65. ralphm

    Kev: fair enough

  66. Kev

    MattJ: So you're -1 until the namespace is fixed?

  67. Kev

    I'm trying to parse that :)

  68. MattJ

    Yes

  69. Kev

    Does it make sense for Jef to address the two namespace issues (and any of the others he has time for) and then resubmit?

  70. MattJ

    wfm

  71. Tobias

    ditto

  72. Kev

    Jef: You happy with that?

  73. Kev

    ralphm / m&m?

  74. Jef

    only if the council feels that xep-135 is correctly replaced by this need xep

  75. MattJ

    Jef, having experimental XEPs for the same thing as existing XEPs is nothing new, if they're intending to solve issues with the existing one(s)

  76. Kev

    I'd like to know what it is that this XEP is trying to do that 135 doesn't - I don't remember seeing that in the proposal.

  77. ralphm

    Kev: I had the same feeling. I'm just wondering why the only reference to XEP-0135 is its supercession without any prose around that

  78. m&m

    -1 until the namespace, and an explanation of how −135 falls down

  79. MattJ

    Obviously if the issues are minor, fixing/extending the existing is an option

  80. ralphm

    right

  81. ralphm

    competing specifications I don't mind. But I'd like to know at least why.

  82. m&m

    exactly

  83. stpeter

    it's hard to call XEP-0135 competition given how long ago it was draft and never updated since :)

  84. stpeter

    s/draft/drafted/

  85. Kev

    stpeter: It's trying to achieve the same thing, though, isn't it?

  86. Kev

    Or if it's not, I don't understand it.

  87. stpeter

    it is

  88. Kev

    I'm not saying WE CAN NOT ACCEPT THIS, IT MUST BE 135.

  89. Kev

    I'd just like to know what it's addressing that 135 didn't.

  90. ralphm

    stpeter: an reason could be 'it is old and does too much'

  91. stpeter

    but 135 was just an idea that we floated and never pursued

  92. ralphm

    there's just no justification at all

  93. Jef

    search, is not address in 135

  94. stpeter

    anyway, I was jammed up yesterday and haven't looked at Jef's document yet, so I can't speak substantively

  95. ralphm

    See, we're getting somewhere

  96. Kev

    Ahhar. OK.

  97. ralphm

    :-)

  98. ralphm

    Jef: I am confident you can make light edits and have it pass with flying colors next week.

  99. Kev

    Jef: OK, so, I think we're at: 1) Fix the MAM namespace 2) Fix the search namespace 3) put a sentence in explaining why this is better than 135. Then resubmit and I think we'll accept. There are various other things that'll need looking at, but I think they can all happen post-publication.

  100. ralphm

    right

  101. Tobias

    sounds like a plan

  102. Jef

    xD great, I will need a lot feedback for that

  103. m&m

    look forward to the next version, then

  104. Kev

    Fab, thanks.

  105. Kev

    3) Date of next meeting.

  106. Kev

    I believe I'm OK for next week, but not the following.

  107. stpeter loves the word "fab"

  108. m&m checks calendar

  109. MattJ

    Next week wfm

  110. stpeter updates the calendar

  111. Kev

    Thanks.

  112. Tobias

    wfm

  113. m&m

    I'm good until 12/26

  114. stpeter

    I will be deep in Cisco meetings next week, but might be able to join

  115. Kev

    I'm not really good from a fortnight today until the new year, but I can probably manage everything other than a fortnight today.

  116. Kev

    In any case, I can do next week, so let's do that.

  117. stpeter

    ok

  118. Kev

    stpeter: OK.

  119. Kev

    4) AOB?

  120. m&m

    let's do next week, and maybe call a year-end break

  121. m&m

    nothing from me

  122. Tobias

    none here

  123. MattJ

    Not here

  124. stpeter

    maybe I can complete a draft of hats in time for next week's discussion :)

  125. Kev

    Fab, I think we're done then, with 5 minutes to spare before Board :)

  126. MattJ

    Yay

  127. Kev

    Thanks all.

  128. Kev bangs the gavel

  129. MattJ

    Thanks Kev

  130. m&m

    gracias

  131. stpeter publishes 1.5 of XEP-0071

  132. ralphm

    hooray

  133. stpeter

    ah, I see that we need a Last Call on 297, too

  134. Kev

    Yes please.

  135. stpeter

    on the way :)

  136. Kev

    Diolch.