[JDEV] Slashdot story, JER, READ THIS

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Hey tcharron, you'll be happy to know that you're referenced in the
acknowledgements section of the latest XMPP docs...

http://www.jabber.org/ietf/draft-ietf-xmpp-core-20.html

Those early contributions are never forgotten. ;-)

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:03:04PM -0600, Thomas Charron wrote:

> This quote just casued me to laugh..  Histerically..
> 
> "There was this earlier IMPP standards effort that yielded the requirement
> documents for IM and presence, and the SIMPLE (SIMPLE is the IETF group
> that extends SIP for IM and presence) guys kind of spun out of the IMPP
> efforts almost immediately. I think XMPP for IM and Jabber started a
> little bit later."

Well, there are people who believe a technology doesn't exist unless the
IETF blesses it. To such people, SIMPLE predates XMPP because the SIMPLE
WG started in 2001, whereas the XMPP WG started in 2002 -- even though
the Jabber protocols of which XMPP is a formalization were defined
mainly in 1999.

/psa