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I'm not at all aware of current stakeholders in the XMPP world. Who funds the development of new standards? Which technical people participate, develop, and champion proposals? Are new proposals getting enough feedback from organizations which large number of users that implement them?

I guess the ultimate question I'm trying to answer through these sub-questions is how active is XMPP development and what parts are failing. I do think that the world needs a chat protocol that's open and extensible, and the question is about health of the de-facto protocol I know of which was designed around these principles.

There has been a recent resurgence in interest for chat protocols, but I don't know of any that are designed with extensibility in mind. This [HN comment thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064616) discusses how XMPP/Jabber and Matrix compare. If XMPP currently stands to fail, are there attempts to standardize protocols that supersede it and aren't affected by the same problems?