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IETF Approves XMPP Core as Proposed Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jibber-jabber dept.

hystrix writes "As long expected, the IESG has approved the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (draft-ietf-xmpp-core-22.txt) as a Proposed Standard. For those of you in the dark, thats the protocol behind the only tried and proven open IM platform, Jabber. Congrats to the hard working Peter Saint-Andre, and the entire XMPP Working Group."

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  1. We've been using Jabber for the past two years... by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...to send Cougaar society status messages around - we've been able to get around 1100 messages (albeit simple ones) per second.

    We're using the Ruby wrapper Jabber4R as well as various GUI clients, and we're using the Jabber 1.4.2 server.

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  2. Re:Still room for lock in.. by LighthouseJ · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is SSL available, I use it when I'm using public computers on Jabber.

  3. Re:OSS Does It Right by grasshoppa · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is just further proof that the OS community can right good, solid, secure code. Pooring lots of money at a problem just makes prices higher, and a few high level management people richer. It's just adding overhead to the problem. OS can right good solid secure code. If only Microsoft could....

    Not codes, standards.

    Jabberd1.4.x is um...well, don't get me wrong, I LOVE jabber, I have it setup at several different places and all that, but jabberd1.4.x sucks rocks. 2.0 is better, and has better features, but written by the same folks, so while I use it because I need it, I'm always keeping a wary eye out for it doing silly things.

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  4. not the first IETF IM standard.... by hta · · Score: 3, Informative

    the first IETF IM standard to make it through the process was the CPIM package (draft-ietf-impp-cpim-msgfmt). It's a specification on how to interconnect IM systems rather than a complete IM protocol specification.
    The other major player in IETF standards-space is SIMPLE - the presence specification documents for that (draft-ietf-simple-presence) are in the RFC Editor's queue.
    The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them.....