Standards and Specs
Standards issues:
- message stanza processing - IM, non-IM, and pseudo-attachment confusion
- advanced file transfer - security, compression, send folders
- advanced security - less bandwidth, faster, secure groupchat, better awareness of security
- network integrity - no black holes, stanza acking
Specs:
- xmpp stream extensions - stanza acking and pinging between clients and servers, “what is my IP?”
- secure-jep65 - encrypting file transfer
- s5b stream extensions - make s5b (direct client connections) more efficient and capable
- end-to-end security - supercedes JEP-0027. message signing, X509, iq packets, replay protection
- RTSP binding - real-time data streaming between JIDs
- media streams - voice/video chat
- server-side history (forum discussion) - protocol, common client storage format
- inband binary data transfer - send binary over jabber using base64
