I was at that meeting. Maybe I should comment. :) It is too early to tell if FIMA will be mandating protocols, as far as I can tell. The thing that seemed most important to the group was interoperability. The Jabber community (including Jabber, Inc.) doesn't see interoperability as something to be used as a weapon against competitors, and our history with S2S and transports proves that. Couple that with our recent successes at the IETF, and I think Jabber's position within FIMA is still very solid.
I also wouldn't be suprised if one or more of the FIMA members were doing more with Jabber at the moment than they are letting on publicly... -- Joe Hildebrand Chief Architect Jabber, Inc. http://www.jabber.com/ Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a little early to say that Jabber is or is not supported by the FIMA > folks. AFAIK they are still evaluating technologies. It certainly won't > hurt that there is a lot more functionality in a Jabber system than there > is in a SIMPLE system (e.g., the SIMPLE people have just begun defining > requirements -- i.e., not even protocol or architecture -- for contact > lists, whereas those have been a reality in the Jabber world since 1999). > And the XMPP WG will lead to more people thinking seriously about using > Jabber technology. > > Or so it seems to me. > > Peter > > -- > Peter Saint-Andre > Jabber Software Foundation > http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Pete Chown wrote: > >> I heard on the grapevine that the Financial Services Instant Messaging >> Association -- FIMA -- had received presentations from different IM >> suppliers, including Jabber. >> >> I'm now hearing contradictory stories; some people tell me that they are >> favouring SIP/SIMPLE, perhaps because of the recent story about Reuters >> and Microsoft. Other people tell me that they are still open to Jabber- >> based instant messaging services. >> >> Does anyone know the state of play on this? It would be a shame if >> Jabber ends up losing out here, when it has been around for such a long >> time and SIMPLE is so new. >> >> -- >> Pete >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jdev mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev >> > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
