XMPP Gets An IETF Working Group 101
An anonymous reader writes "The IETF has approved the formation of a Working Group to continue evolving the XMPP protocol." Interoperable instant messaging, who'd a thunk it. Our previous story has more information.
AOL TW (Score:5, Funny)
As you can see in Patent#93993229, we invented the idea of instant message interopability. You don't believe us? Look at our next version of AIM and ICQ, they're combined! combined I tell you!
Great! (Score:3, Funny)
So let me get this straight... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I fear for the weak willed (Score:2, Funny)
sounds good too me... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:I fear for the weak willed (Score:3, Funny)
i.e. a relationship that you pay for.
Sounds about right to me.
More old news (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, those systems were limited to a hundred or so unix clones, plus VMS. But it would have worked just find on Windoze and the Mac, too, if they had bothered to pay attention to what was already developed and available for free.
It's really just another case of the commercial world laboriously reinventing the wheel, and loudly proclaiming that their shape wheel (square, hexagonal, etc.) are the best, while carefully ignoring the long existence of a round wheel.
(1) See any unix manual from the early 80's.
The good things about standards is having lots (Score:2, Funny)
I see the IETF now has three WG doing IM standards
XMPP (The jabber stuff)
IMPP Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol
SIMPLE SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions
I notice most the people I know you AOL, MSN, and Yahoo.