Hi everyone, There have been lots of discussions[citation needed] (feel free to trawl the list archives yourself... :) ) on the wording we use for our specifications. The term "Draft" for our non-Final but also non-Experimental standards has been adopted from our "mother" organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF has since abandoned that term.
Yet, it remains with us. In the recent years it has been a source of confusion[citation needed] about this term by newcomers and people not familiar with the XMPP ecosystem. They thought that a Draft Standard may not be ready for deployment (despite the fancy green text saying otherwise) or that it may change substantially, both of which are decidedly untrue for our documents in Draft state. So... The day has finally come. Thanks to Sam who stood up and proposed a pull request to update the wording in XEP-0001. As of today, our formerly "Draft" standards are called "Stable". I am sure there will be some hitches on that road. There is some tooling to iron out, but this first update immediately patches the view of all XEP documents we publish (old versions in the attic will stay as they are). I hope your are as happy about this as I am :). (or at least not as angry or sad about it as I am happy about it, that'd be a start already) kind regards, Jonas
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