XSF Roadmap

Author:	Peter Saint-Andre
Version:	0.13
Date:	2009-06-17

The mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is to build an open, standardized, secure, feature-rich, widely-deployed, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet.

The XSF has identified several high-priority initiatives to help achieve that mission:

Incorporate implementation and deployment experience into the core definition of XMPP by completing revisions to rfc3920bis and rfc3921bis within the IETF's XMPP Working Group.
Define an implementable, user-friendly method for end-to-end encryption of XMPP traffic, based on the requirements in draft-saintandre-xmpp-e2e-requirements (one proposed approach is summarized in draft-meyer-xmpp-e2e-encryption).
Improve XMPP file transfer by transitioning to Jingle (see XEP-0234) with SOCKS5 bytestreams (XEP-0260) and in-band bytestreams (XEP-0261).
Improve the resistance of XMPP to spam, phishing, abuse, and denial of service attacks, with a current focus on XEP-0268: Incident Reporting.