On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Tomasz Sterna<to...@xiaoka.com> wrote: > On czw, 2009-07-16 at 16:14 +0100, Kevin Smith wrote: >> I'd like to hang arbitrary payloads off roster entries. This probably >> doesn't require any particular protocol work apart from a namespaced >> element, and I'll knock up a short spec together with anyone else >> that's interested. > You are one of the authors of XEP-209 which phased metacontacts to > private XML.
I didn't phase metacontacts to private XML at all - before there was no metacontacts XEP, and afterwards there was. > Could you explain what had changed since, that you now favor the roster > items eXtensions? My opinion hasn't changed - if the protocol I'm proposing here was available when I wrote the metacontacts XEP, I'd have used that. /K