XSF Editor Team - 2017-09-20

Guus, I agree. I was planning to silently omit the short name once it moves to final

Everything is meant to have a shortname isn't it?

is it?

doesn’t sound reasonable for things which don’t need a namespace

I don't think it's really related to the namespace other than being convenient to use the same thing for both, it's just a way to reference a spec easily.

"When a XEP is first published in the Experimental state, the XMPP Registrar shall work with the author(s) to mint an appropriate namespace name, which shall be of the form "urn:xmpp:ShortName:0" or, where appropriate, "urn:xmpp:ShortName:SubName:0"

namespace name includes shortname

SamWhited, let me rephrase: often useful, but I don’t think that every XEP needs a shortname.