Peter Mount Application 2010

My name is Peter Mount and I'm reapplying for membership

Contact Information
Jabber Id: [xmpp://peter@retep.org peter@retep.org] [xmpp://petermount@jabber.org petermount@jabber.org]

Email address: [mailto:peter@retep.org peter@retep.org]

I'm a 40 year old living in Kent, England. Since 2004 I've been working for an online gaming company using XMPP/Jabber since 2006 for our multi-user lobby.

Whenever I'm online you can also find me in the jdev chat room on jabber.org.

I've been a member of the Technical Review team since it was setup, specialising in MUC and PubSub.

I also listen in on the XMPP mailing list of the XMPP Working Group at the IETF keeping up with the progress of the proposed revisions to RFC3920 and 3921.

Open Source

 * retepXMPP my own XMPP library written in Java utilising various current API's like JAXB, Grizzly, Terracotta &amp; JavaNIO. Unlike other libraries this is targeted at implementing the protocols rather than just providing another client api, it's aimed at client, components and server implementations.
 * NioSax Although not directly XMPP, this is a subproject which provides both a SAX and DOM XML push parser that can handle partial content received over a Java NIO connection, specifically when handling XML/XMPP streams where the message length is unknown.

Commercial

 * As stated earlier my day job involves XMPP/Jabber daily.

Jabber - Why I like it
Over the years I've dealt with so many different messaging frameworks and since being introduced to XMPP/Jabber I've found it to be so extensible. Unlike other protocols, it's so easy to add additional custom protocols without having to refactor the core.

Why I'm reapplying
Although I've been quiet for the last few months due to the day job taking precedence, I'm hoping to be more active in the New Year. There's plenty of work to be done reviewing the current XEP's and with the new RFC's on their way soon I feel that more of them could do with a fuller review to bring them inline with those changes.