[JDEV] FIMA

[Joe Hildebrand]

I was at that meeting.  Maybe I should comment.  :)

It is too early to tell if FIMA will be mandating protocols, as far as
I can tell.  The thing that seemed most important to the group was
interoperability.  The Jabber community (including Jabber, Inc.)
doesn't see interoperability as something to be used as a weapon
against competitors, and our history with S2S and transports proves
that.  Couple that with our recent successes at the IETF, and I think
Jabber's position within FIMA is still very solid.

I also wouldn't be suprised if one or more of the FIMA members were
doing more with Jabber at the moment than they are letting on publicly...

-- 
Joe Hildebrand
Chief Architect
Jabber, Inc.
http://www.jabber.com/

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org> writes:

> It's a little early to say that Jabber is or is not supported by the FIMA
> folks. AFAIK they are still evaluating technologies. It certainly won't
> hurt that there is a lot more functionality in a Jabber system than there
> is in a SIMPLE system (e.g., the SIMPLE people have just begun defining
> requirements -- i.e., not even protocol or architecture -- for contact
> lists, whereas those have been a reality in the Jabber world since 1999).
> And the XMPP WG will lead to more people thinking seriously about using 
> Jabber technology.
>
> Or so it seems to me.
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> Jabber Software Foundation
> http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
>
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Pete Chown wrote:
>
>> I heard on the grapevine that the Financial Services Instant Messaging 
>> Association -- FIMA -- had received presentations from different IM 
>> suppliers, including Jabber.
>> 
>> I'm now hearing contradictory stories; some people tell me that they are 
>> favouring SIP/SIMPLE, perhaps because of the recent story about Reuters 
>> and Microsoft.  Other people tell me that they are still open to Jabber- 
>> based instant messaging services.
>> 
>> Does anyone know the state of play on this?  It would be a shame if 
>> Jabber ends up losing out here, when it has been around for such a long 
>> time and SIMPLE is so new.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Pete
>> 
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