[JDEV] iChat AV

[David 'TheRaven' Chisnall]

HAs anyone looked at iChat AV yet?  It claims to support open standards 
for video and audio conferencing, and Steve Jobs indicated that it 
should be able to interoperate with it.  This kind of functionality 
looks really great, and it would be really nice if Jabber could be used 
to set up this kind of conference with iChat AV users as well as other 
Jabber users.  

On a related note, Apple seems to be a fan of open standards, yet uses 
AIM for their own IM app.  Has anyone from the JSF approached them about 
using Jabber?  It would be quite a coup if a future version of iChat 
used Jabber as the trasport.  A server running on mac.com could 
authenticate against the existing users database, and communicate with 
old versions of iChat and AIM users through a transport, while using 
Jabber for everything else.  I doubt AOL would block a transport run by 
a company like Apple... Seriously though, they are in an ideal place to 
use Jabber, since they have an installed market share of IM users, and 
they enjoy adding features to the top of the existing protocol, making 
XMPP ideal for them.