Re: Proposed XMPP Extension: Explicit Mentions

Kevin Smith via Standards <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:48:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig
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> On 24 Mar 2026, at 17:07, Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM Marvin W. via Standards
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> There was already discussions on that matter during Summit and I made
>> the point that I believe we have two entirely separate issues here that
>> IMO should also be treated entirely independent (potentially using two
>> XEPs):
>> (a) Markup to the body, that has the purpose to indicate that a part of
>> the body is referring to a user or a group of users
>> (b) Some indication that the message should have some sort of priority
>> to a user or a group of users
> 
> I just want to briefly mention that I agree with Marvin. Those should
> be two different things. The markup part should be made *compatible
> with* 0394. I don’t think it should it be in 0394 and I think people
> should be able to implement one without the other. But those two
> things should be aware of each other and for example prevent
> overlapping sections and stuff.

I think it makes sense to update References(372) to say that when used with 394 it shouldn’t have partially overlapping spans and references.

/K

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