In addition to these guys, Wireless Village is an IM standard created by Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia. It's getting very strong traction among wireless carriers who want to deploy IM on phones and other mobile devices.
Of these different offerings, SIP isn't strictly an IM thing, but there are people trying to use it to set up IM sessions. Microsoft uses SIP in their Messenger offering (which is how they claim they are "standards-based").
CPIM is probably dead.
IMPP has some traction in the 3GPP wireless groups, but not really anywhere else (read "probably dead").
SIMPLE has tons of backers including IBM (Lotus) and is probably going to emerge as one of the dominant standards.
Jabber is just trying to stay afloat in all this standards chaos. This was a very good move for them since they actually have millions of deployed users. Jabber is the only IETF-related working group that can claim real-world deployment like this. None of the other standards have any subtantial deployed user base (if any users at all).
Probably what will happen is that as IM servers emerge, they will support a handful of these protocols, just like email servers currently support IMAP, POP, etc.
Notice that AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo! are not pushing their protocols as standards anymore. They are plying the Mexican stand-off thing and probably will have to scramble to jump on one of these standards as things shake out.
FYI, the FCC has federally mandated that all cell phone carriers must include either GPS tracking in their cell phones or provide some sort of triangulation to pinpoint cell phone users. I'm not sure what the exact timeline is for this, but it's coming within the next year.
This is all happening as part of the new Enhanced 911 service infrastructure. Make a 911 call and they can find you without you giving them crappy directions.
In fact, there are companies lined up to take advantage of these so-called "location" services. Location-based services will merge with things like instant messaging to provide enhanced presence and applications.
If all this scares you, cancel your cell phone plan.
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Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP)
SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE)
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Common Presence and Instant Messaging (CPIM) (Still a draft)
In addition to these guys, Wireless Village is an IM standard created by Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia. It's getting very strong traction among wireless carriers who want to deploy IM on phones and other mobile devices. Of these different offerings, SIP isn't strictly an IM thing, but there are people trying to use it to set up IM sessions. Microsoft uses SIP in their Messenger offering (which is how they claim they are "standards-based").
CPIM is probably dead.
IMPP has some traction in the 3GPP wireless groups, but not really anywhere else (read "probably dead").
SIMPLE has tons of backers including IBM (Lotus) and is probably going to emerge as one of the dominant standards.
Jabber is just trying to stay afloat in all this standards chaos. This was a very good move for them since they actually have millions of deployed users. Jabber is the only IETF-related working group that can claim real-world deployment like this. None of the other standards have any subtantial deployed user base (if any users at all).
Probably what will happen is that as IM servers emerge, they will support a handful of these protocols, just like email servers currently support IMAP, POP, etc.
Notice that AOL, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo! are not pushing their protocols as standards anymore. They are plying the Mexican stand-off thing and probably will have to scramble to jump on one of these standards as things shake out.
This is all happening as part of the new Enhanced 911 service infrastructure. Make a 911 call and they can find you without you giving them crappy directions.
In fact, there are companies lined up to take advantage of these so-called "location" services. Location-based services will merge with things like instant messaging to provide enhanced presence and applications.
If all this scares you, cancel your cell phone plan.