XMPP Council - 2020-04-22


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  138. jonas’

    1) Roll Call

  139. daniel

    Hi

  140. Zash

    SYN

  141. jonas’

    ACK

  142. Ge0rG

    FIN

  143. jonas’

    also, no TCP in multicast

  144. jonas’

    2) Agenda Bashing

  145. Ge0rG

    RST RST RST

  146. jonas’

    this one’s a long one, anything to modify?

  147. Ge0rG

    TL;DR, sorry :(

  148. jonas’

    3) Editor’s Update - Expired calls: None - Calls in progress: None - New ProtoXEP: Quick Response - New ProtoXEP: Best practices for password hashing and storage

  149. jonas’

    4) Items for voting

  150. Ge0rG

    looks good, but I haven't even catched up with previous on-lists

  151. jonas’

    s/catched/caught/ scnr

  152. jonas’

    4a) Proposed XMPP Extension: Best practices for password hashing and storage URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/password-storage.html Abstract: This document outlines best practices for handling user passwords on the public Jabber network for both clients and servers.

  153. jonas’

    do you folks think this is a matter the XSF should handle?

  154. jonas’

    that’s my primary question with this one

  155. Zash

    As Dave says, it would fit with IETF / Kitten

  156. daniel

    someone said on list (was it the author?) that we can start this of with the xsf and if it gets replaced by something else that's fine

  157. daniel

    and i agree

  158. jonas’

    it doesn’t concern wire protocol, it concerns interop to some extent (but not beyond things applying to all things SASL)

  159. daniel

    so +1

  160. jonas’

    daniel, very good point, I like it

  161. Ge0rG

    I think that the XSF is not the right place for recommendations for "the public Jabber network", but other than that it's probably a good place for public-server recommendations

  162. jonas’

    I follow daniel with the +1

  163. Zash

    +1

  164. Ge0rG

    +1

  165. jonas’

    Thanks

  166. jonas’

    4b) Proposed XMPP Extension: Quick Response URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/quick-response.html Abstract: Quickly respond to automated messages.

  167. jonas’

    let’s make this a quick response: +1

  168. jonas’

    let’s make this a quick response: I’m +1 on that

  169. Ge0rG

    That looks vaguely familiar.

  170. jonas’

    it does

  171. daniel

    +1

  172. Zash

    +1

  173. jonas’

    though I’d like to note (cc @ MattJ ) that I agree that actions and responses should maybe be merged on the wire layer, and a flag should indicate a switch between the "virtual keyboard" or "persistent actions" mode

  174. Zash

    Can it be fixed in Experimental?

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  176. Syndace

    (spoiler: I don't think so, but I'd like to discuss details if/when it is accepted)

  177. jonas’

    anything is possible in Experimental

  178. jonas’

    Syndace, I’m not hard-sold on either way, if there’s a good rationale in the document which explains why a split is sensible, I’m fine with that

  179. MattJ

    FWIW I got hooked by Daniel's mention of spinners for actions, so... we'll see

  180. Syndace

    Yeah, I think the reasons will be a little clearer after I've incorporated the feedback I got in the past days.

  181. MattJ

    (this could be another optional flag for response type)

  182. jonas’

    Ge0rG, are you staying with your intent to vote on-list on this one?

  183. Kev

    Is there any merit in considering 'forms2' here?

  184. Ge0rG

    a quick +1 in the hope to catch up with the thread before it expires or bad things happen

  185. Ge0rG

    hi Kev

  186. jonas’

    Kev, I don’t think so

  187. Kev

    If people don't want to use forms because they're terrible, rather than solving a subproblem, using to to start work on a thing that isn't terrible?

  188. pep.

    Kev: after the protoxep has been accepted then :)

  189. pep.

    not blocking this one to reproduce what happened with reactions

  190. jonas’

    I think we need to stop over-engineering the simple things

  191. MattJ

    Kev, I've no objection to people working on forms2, but I have objection to delaying otherwise fine protocols because there is a dream of something better that might be finished in a couple of years

  192. Syndace

    The XEP might just end up specifying how to conveniently use forms to achieve what is done with different elements now.

  193. MattJ

    The use case doesn't call for forms at all

  194. jonas’

    the discussion about a potential '4 replacement should be taken to xsf@ please, we have a tight agenda today

  195. pep.

    (note that I'm not particularly in favour of quick response, I don't mind, I'm just bitter re reactions)

  196. jonas’

    4c) PR#935: XEP-0004: clarify that the submitting entity may omit optional fields URL: https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/935 Description: It is not really spelled out that the submitting entity may omit fields not mark as required by the processing entity. Even though the existence of the flag on form fields is a strong hint towards this, it is worth to explicitly state that.

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  198. Ge0rG

    +1

  199. jonas’

    I don’t see how this could do harm. +1

  200. Zash

    +1

  201. MattJ

    Observation: nobody really knows what omitting a field does in different contexts

  202. daniel

    wait. what will be the value of those fields if you leave them out?

  203. Zash

    daniel, up to the processing thing?

  204. daniel

    and thats good?

  205. jonas’

    daniel, the "default"?

  206. MattJ

    MUC doesn't define this, for example

  207. Ge0rG

    the same as if you don't have the clarification in the XEP, I suppose

  208. daniel

    the default or the previous value?

  209. Zash

    defaults or previosu values depneding on if you're creating somethin new, or editing

  210. jonas’

    daniel, it doesn’t change the logic of the document.

  211. jonas’

    it was implicitly there already that fields which aren’t marked as <required/> can be omitted

  212. daniel

    mhh ok. +1

  213. Zash

    Tho I believe at least one implementation will reject forms if they're missing <fields>

  214. jonas’

    <required/> This element, which MUST be empty, flags the field as required in order for the form to be considered valid.

  215. jonas’

    taking the reverse of that, a field without <required/> does not need to be present

  216. Kev

    I don't think you can fix 4 without a certain amount of discomfort. It's underspecified in both the core and its uses, and trying to deal with it is a mess. This seems like low hanging fruit with relatively little pain, to me.

  217. jonas’

    Kev, is this about 4c, or still about Quick Responses / forms2?

  218. Kev

    jonas’: The PR.

  219. jonas’

    if the latter, please save it for after the meeting in xsf@. if the former, I don’t quite see how it’s connected.

  220. Kev

    MattJ observed that no-one knows what optional fields mean.

  221. jonas’

    the PR is just a clarification of something which is defined elsewhere, but not spelt out clearly; I don’t see how your comment is relevant, but I’m tired, so maybe that’s that.

  222. Kev

    I said that any improvement to '4 is going to have uncomfortable questions, but this one seems to be fairly painless, and helps.

  223. jonas’

    ah, yeah, that

  224. jonas’

    I agree

  225. jonas’

    thanks for clarifying

  226. MattJ

    I'm not council, but I'm in favour of the change under discussion. I just don't think it resolves anything in practice.

  227. jonas’

    MattJ, I agree with that, too.

  228. jonas’

    but I’m not going to stand in the way of making our documents more accessible by spelling things out in clear statements instead of having to reverse-logic something

  229. jonas’

    and with that, moving on

  230. jonas’

    4d) PR#926: XEP-0045: Clarify that the 307 status code should not be used alongside 333 for user disconnects URL: https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/926 Description: Per discussion in xsf@ about the UX implications of showing user disconnects as kicks.

  231. jonas’

    +1

  232. Zash

    +1

  233. daniel

    +1

  234. Ge0rG

    +1

  235. jonas’

    4e) Start Last Call on XEP-0320: Use of DTLS-SRTP in Jingle Sessions URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0320.html Abstract: This specification defines how to use DTLS-SRTP (RFC 5763) in the Jingle application type for the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) as a way to negotiate media path key agreement for secure RTP in one-to-one media sessions.

  236. Kev

    4d) is 'recommended' the right word here, given confusion with SHOULD?

  237. daniel

    +1

  238. jonas’

    re 4e: +1, due to the recent influx of jingle things, I expect some feedback there actually

  239. jonas’

    Kev, thanks, I’ll let the editors know

  240. Ge0rG

    +1

  241. Zash

    +1

  242. jonas’

    4f) Start Last Call on XEP-0339: Source-Specific Media Attributes in Jingle URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0339.html Abstract: This specification provides an XML mapping for translating the RFC 5766 Source-Specific Media Attributes from SDP to Jingle

  243. jonas’

    again, +1

  244. Ge0rG

    +1

  245. Zash

    +1

  246. daniel

    +1

  247. jonas’

    Secret hidden agendum: 4g) PR#934: XEP-0167: add rtcp-mux element URL: https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/934 Description: RTCP-muxing is used in WebRTC. This element is actually used in the wild by clients like Siskin and Movim (and soon Conversations)

  248. jonas’

    on-list

  249. daniel

    +1

  250. Zash

    +1

  251. jonas’

    nevermind, +1

  252. Ge0rG

    doesn't that affect backward compat?

  253. daniel

    it's an optional element

  254. daniel

    so probably not?

  255. jonas’

    in the same namespace though

  256. jonas’

    some ~people~ parsers are picky about that

  257. Zash

    MAY and addition should be mostly fine?

  258. Zash

    Unless you're doing ultra strict schema validation

  259. daniel

    well we can introduce the feature for it

  260. daniel

    see the comment

  261. daniel

    if that makes people feel better

  262. daniel

    but in practice i wouldn’t be worried about it

  263. daniel

    most implementations i saw send this

  264. daniel

    that's how i even learned about that field

  265. jonas’

    hm, writing down that a feature is to be announced -- even if in practice noone cares -- would be good for clarifty

  266. Ge0rG

    by sending it you tell the other party that you support it?

  267. jonas’

    hm, writing down that a feature is to be announced -- even if in practice noone cares -- would be good for clarity

  268. daniel

    apparently down to the original google jingle

  269. Zash

    Seems fine then

  270. jonas’

    but yeah, not going to insist on this

  271. Ge0rG

    +1 with the PR as-is

  272. Zash

    I wonder if we have a Jingle SIG we could solicit reviews from

  273. jonas’

    we have a few people involved with jingle, but I think at least one of them already commented on the PR

  274. Zash

    Yeah

  275. Ge0rG

    daniel: does the responder need to somehow acknowledge use of <rtcp-mux/> or is it implied by how the connection is established?

  276. daniel

    Ge0rG, they can or can’t put that into their counter offer

  277. jonas’

    that’ll negotiate nicely without any additional feature flags then

  278. jonas’

    if they don’t know it, they can simply ignore it

  279. Ge0rG

    yeah

  280. jonas’

    5) Pending Votes

  281. jonas’

    everyone is pending on Room Activity Indicators according to my notes (but I haven’t checked the ML yet)

  282. jonas’

    anyone want to cast votes now?

  283. daniel

    not me

  284. jonas’

    we’re over time anyways

  285. jonas’

    and nothing expires

  286. jonas’

    so moving on

  287. jonas’

    6) Date of Next

  288. jonas’

    +1w wfm

  289. daniel

    +1w wfm

  290. Zash

    +1w wfm

  291. jonas’

    7) AOB Unless someone speaks up with an urgent AOB in the next 30s, I’m going to cut this.

  292. Ge0rG

    +1W WFM

  293. jonas’

    8) Ite Meeting Est

  294. daniel

    Thanks all

  295. jonas’

    Thanks everyone for managing this long agenda without any on-list vote.

  296. jonas’

    Thanks Tedd :)

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