> Take a look at the list of RFC and XEP authors for starters. That list is VERY short. And most authors have 15+ years of experience in related technologies. Indeed, there are some extensions from "beginners" but they are not widely adopted.
> subscription for new ones to be written based on their requirements. "Subscription fee" for writing an XEP is **the time**. As I described in previous message - it is cheaper to write some domain-specific protocol from scratch, rather than adopt XMPP in that current outdated state. > open-source entitlement. I have mention that now is 2015 - "you should use XMPP just because it is driven by open community" is not an answer in 2015: there are MANY open communities with open specs and opensource libraries. XMPP still lost it 2003. ---