[JDEV] im unified

[Rob Brown]

At 09:43 AM 8/29/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I've been trying to contact IMUnified via email for several weeks and
>haven't heard back yet despite their press release stating:  "We welcome the
>participation of other interested IM companies who share the vision of
>interoperability based on open standards and encourage them to join our
>efforts."

That's a bad sign....

>Also in their press  release of 7/25 they mentioned a spec would be released
>by the end of August.  What are the chances that 9 large member companies
>with 9 different IM protocols can get together and find a solution within 1
>month?  Zero!!!

That's probably true.  But then again it doesn't seem *that* difficult, 
since they are saying it is only a stopgap until IETF has a standard.  All 
they have to do is come up with a "universal handshake" type of thing that 
each of them will agree to support.  But maybe I don't know what I'm 
talking about.... :)

>It'll be a long time before IMUnified releases something of substance that
>will get implemented by the member companies, so I hope Jabber keeps doing
>its own thing:  stabalize the system & transports, and make it scalable to
>millions of users.

Probably true, but keep in mind that they are already hacking each other's 
protocols, so if all their coalition is is an agreement that the developers 
will cooperate and that they won't intentionally block other members 
systems, it is something that could be useful to them right away.  You'd 
hope it is a little more ambitious than that though.

-rob