From bb3358496671f07355758b62b88e5cfd61158011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kim Alvefur
The state of sharing media with chat partners in the XMPP community is a protocol zoo in 2016. There three major protocols for sharing media in XMPP.
+The state of sharing media with chat partners in the XMPP community is a protocol zoo in 2016. There are three major protocols for sharing media in XMPP.
&xep0231; is designed for small media, i.e. less than 8 KB in size, that is hosted server-side and transferred Base64 encoded in-band of an existing XMPP stream. Example use-cases are custom emoticons that are referenced in &xep0071; img-tags, or thumbnails for &xep0234;.