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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. Standardized IM Format by sabrex15 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think this is a good thing, but it all depends on who implements it.. If all the major IM "brands" continue to use their own standard, then whats the point?... If they were inter-operable, then there would need to be other key selling points (what?.. selling points for free IM??) bah.. early morning spout-offs

  2. Good but... by javatips · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is nice... At last we have a standard IM protocol.

    However, unless the major player in IM implements the protocol, this standard importance is not very high.

    That would change if someone develop a killer app that make use of the protocol, but for IM the way it's done now, we need at least one of the major player to implement the protocol... At that is not likely in a near future.

    1. Re:Good but... by Graelin · · Score: 3, Insightful

      However, unless the major player in IM implements the protocol, this standard importance is not very high.

      Actually, this isn't really true. ICQ/AOL, MSN and Yahoo all have a different protocol but products like Trillian can use Jabber as a generic protocol to layer on top of these proprietary protocols.

      Not that I think it will happen, but with Jabber being a standard you'd think these smaller IM players could join together. Or at least link together.

  3. Unimportant. by CaptainCheese · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just because it's going to be a standard, that doesn't mean it'll become THE standard. IM, etc. would need to adopt it.

    Anyway, I'm still wainting for Linksys to make a home router/hub for RFC1149 (IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers)

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    -- .sigs are a waste of data...turn them off...
  4. Jabber protocol is excellent by truth_revealed · · Score: 5, Insightful
    XMPP offers:

    a very simple design - uses just a subset of XML (no comments, macros, DTDs)

    good error recovery

    good service discovery

    not tied to any vendor or language

    not domain specific

    bidirectional asynchronous communication - an XMPP session is just a pair of XML documents (one going in each direction).

    decent speed

    I see XMPP being as big as HTTP in the future. It will be the standard for interactive distributed communications.