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* Open -- the Jabber protocols are free, open, public, and easily understandable; in addition, multiple implementations exist for clients, servers, server components, and code libraries. | * Open -- the Jabber protocols are free, open, public, and easily understandable; in addition, multiple implementations exist for clients, servers, server components, and code libraries. | ||
* Standard -- the [http://ietf.org/ Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)] has formalized the core XML streaming protocols as an approved instant messaging and presence technology under the name Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol or XMPP. The XMPP specifications were published as [http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3920.html RFC 3920] and [http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3921.html RFC 3921] in 2004, and the XMPP Standards Foundation continues to publish many [http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ XMPP extensions]. | * Standard -- the [http://ietf.org/ Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)] has formalized the core XML streaming protocols as an approved instant messaging and presence technology under the name Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol or XMPP. The XMPP specifications were published as [http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3920.html RFC 3920] and [http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/rfc3921.html RFC 3921] in 2004, and the [http://www.xmpp.org/ XMPP Standards Foundation] continues to publish many [http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ XMPP extensions]. | ||
* Proven -- the first Jabber technologies were developed by Jeremie Miller in 1998 and are now quite stable; hundreds of developers are working on Jabber technologies, there are tens of thousands of Jabber servers running on the Internet today, and millions of people use Jabber for IM. | * Proven -- the first Jabber technologies were developed by Jeremie Miller in 1998 and are now quite stable; hundreds of developers are working on Jabber technologies, there are tens of thousands of Jabber servers running on the Internet today, and millions of people use Jabber for IM. | ||