@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ It would be nice to replace Pidgin with another secure IM client. Unfortunately
The document can also list candidate clients together with some indication where they are lacking (and where they shine).
TODO: Would a pair of two separate client (XMPP and IRC) also be okay, or are we only looking for a single client that can do both? In fact, it is not even clear if Tails needs to contain an IRC client at all, after #tails and #tails-dev have been moved to XMPP.
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# Requirements
**Note**: this is a work in progress. See [[!tails_ticket 11686]]
and its blockers for the next steps.
**Note**: the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
"SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
