DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2003



Consortia of More Than 200 Universities and Corporations Forms

Working Group to Consider Using XMPP as National and International

Standard For Federated Instant Messaging (IM)

The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF - Jabber Software Foundation

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..... Click the link for more information.), the non-profit organization that builds open application protocols on top of the IETF - (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the Internet community.

The work of the IETF is done in working groups that are chartered to explore specific tasks. The groups are organized into areas, each with two directors.'s Capable of being expanded or customized. For example, with extensible programming languages, programmers can add new control structures, statements or data types. Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), today confirmed that The second generation of the Internet, developed by a consortium of more than 200 universities, private companies and the U.S. government. It was not developed for commercial use or to replace the Internet, but is the reincarnation of it, intended primarily for research. Whereas the Internet was first designed to exchange text, Internet2 is designed for full-motion video and 3D animations.

..... Click the link for more information.'s I2IM working group is focusing its efforts on XMPP. As described on the I2IM's web site, XMPP "has benefited from an open process, open-source implementations, and, recently, IETF-led protocol standardization." (http://middleware.internet2.edu/i2im)

XMPP is the See XMLP. for instant messaging that grew out of the Jabber open-source project and that is now in Last Call within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). XMPP has been widely considered the

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I2IM, also known as the Integrated Infrastructure for Instant Messaging Working Group, reports that "services like IRC and AOL Instant Messenger have been widely used by university people for university-related work, raising issues of authentication, authorization, privacy, and legal compliance. As IM becomes an increasingly popular alternative to email, users look to campus IT services for the same level of support and integration traditionally provided for central email services."

"Jabber and XMPP have had significant presence within academic circles for years," said Peter Saint-Andre, executive director of the JSF. "Through I2IM, we are working to make XMPP the federated standard for IM and perhaps other middleware functions across the academic landscape, centralizing IM communication on individual campuses and securely enabling them between different institutions."

About Jabber, XMPP, and The Jabber Software Foundation

The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) is a non-profit organization that builds open application protocols on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). Widely considered the It implies a common, or standard, language. The term is used in the information industry to refer to the most-widely used format, protocol or command language for a particular purpose. Its actual meaning is "Frankish language," which is spoken in various Mediterranean ports and is a combination of Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic and Turkish. Its original meaning also implies a hybrid or mixture of languages.

..... Click the link for more information. of instant messaging, XMPP is an emerging Internet standard for real-time messaging and presence that grew out of the Jabber open-source project, and that continues to be developed within both the IETF and the broader Jabber community.