On 13-07-2016 12:43, David Balažic wrote:
In light of this, does anyone know any group, organization, effort or anything
toward unification of IM protocols?
Having 5 (or even 10) different apps just to communicate with people is
ridiculous.
(multi-protocol clients like pidgin help, but the problem still remains)
A quick google found just this old article from 2008:
"Standardizing instant messaging protocols"
Instant messaging's growth hasn't been as robust as many expected
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2273493/email-services/standardizing-instant-messaging-protocols.html
There is a standard, XMPP (aka Jabber). Unfortunately, the companies consider
going proprietary to be advantageous. Even those that base their applications
on XMPP add proprietary extensions to purposely be incompatible with everybody
else.
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