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= IETF Activities = | = IETF Activities = | ||
The XSF has spearheaded creation of a renewed [http://tools.ietf.org/wg/xmpp/ XMPP Working Group] at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The primary focus for the WG is to complete revisions to RFC 3920 and RFC 3921, which comprise the core definition of XMPP. | The XSF has spearheaded creation of a renewed [http://tools.ietf.org/wg/xmpp/ XMPP Working Group] at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). | ||
The primary focus for the WG is to complete revisions to RFC 3920 and RFC 3921, which comprise the core definition of XMPP. This work is very far along and will likely be complete in late 2009 or early 2010. | |||
A strong secondary focus for the WG is development of a secure, deployable technology for end-to-end encryption of XMPP traffic. A [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-saintandre-xmpp-e2e-requirements requirements document] has been published (borrowing heavily from [http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0210.html XEP-0210] and one proposed approach to solving the problem has been documented using an application-level profile of Transport Layer Security, called [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-meyer-xmpp-e2e-encryption XTLS]. | |||