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.
Finally some good news (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:OFFTOPIC (Score:2, Insightful)
I think most people find sites using The Freedom Engine, which is linked from the fproxy main page.
Open standards are a good thing... (Score:3, Insightful)
Admirable, but ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Wishful thinking. (Score:4, Insightful)
While the emergence of a standard will quickly generate open source implementations (I can easily see, say, licq supporting the standard within days of the first draft) there is no incentive for the big corporate players to support it, and indeed a great many reasons not to.
Their interrest lies not in interoperability, but making sure that their customers can only talk to their customers so that if you want to be able to IM your brother-in-law or somesuch you have to subscribe to their service (even if it's in a way just as "simple" as feeding them your email for generating spam).
This means that, in the long run, the mass market consumer will not be able to talk to the open source clients we geeks will be using.
Like I said, wishful thinking. If we're really lucky this is how things will happen, and we'll have an IM that isn't swamped with hundreds of thousands of inane twinks and lusers spamming us with request for pr0n or cybersex. :-)
-- MG
Re:I fell for the /. hype.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Take a look at the list of clients available under the client list [jabber.org] at jabber.org [jabber.org] or even some of the links under that.
Don't sell the comercial server short either. The evaluation copy may expire in a month, however it does support some features that are not in the open/free version of the server.
-Rusty
Re:I fear for the weak willed (Score:2, Insightful)
I am also tired about being preached to about pornography. Yes, it can be abused, but then so does alcohol. Is alcohol a sin? It is all about moderation.
I would have modded you down, but thought a reply would better serve my opinion. It is just blantantly absurd to blame IM for affairs. <sarcasm> Men might as well shun off all contact with other women. In fact, why don't we not let women out at all? They are just there to tempt us. Better yet let us make them hide there bodies so no man would be temped.</sarcasm>
It is ideas like yours that give rise to fanatasism. Technology is not evil. People just must exorcise good judgement. Preach good judgement and soon there won't be as many affairs to worry about.
Not enough (Score:3, Insightful)
In the end XMPP/Jabber will only work with itself. A marvel of interoperability.
And this suits me just fine. They can keep their IM-BS. The rest of us can use somthing else.
Re:Finally some good news (Score:2, Insightful)
Your focus on wireless... are you implying that IM is the "killer app" for wireless? That may be true.
back-end interoperability (Score:5, Insightful)
What we really need is interoperability at the back-end--AOL IM servers need to talk to MSN IM and to IRC. Maybe standardized protocols would help with that a little (the AOL server could pretend to be a client for MSN), but I suspect lack of connectivity is more of a business thing.