Per a vote of the XMPP Council, changed from Historical and Active to Standards Track and Draft; recommended use of Entity Capabilities instead of Software Version when presence information is available; added proviso to security considerations regarding disclosure of operating system information; added section on Service Discovery.
Per a vote of the Jabber Council, changed status to Active.
Initial version.
The standard error conditions described in &xep0086; apply (e.g., service unavailable if the entity does not support the namespace).
In order for a requesting entity to determine if a responding entity supports result set management, it SHOULD send a &xep0030; information request to the responding entity:
+Revealing the application's underlying operating system may open the user or system to attacks directed against that operating system; therefore, an application MUST provide a way for a human user or administrator to disable sharing of information about the operating system.