The XMPP Blog

On December 20th 2013 the XSF received some very exciting news, to end what had already been a great year - ISOC were awarding the XMPP community an incredibly generous gift to help support the work we are doing in improving privacy and security. In their own words: “The Internet Society takes a great interest in projects that will improve our existing mechanisms for on-line privacy and trust and we appreciate the XMPP Standards Foundations leadership in securing XMPP services in the wake of recent events. We know that the XMPP community is working to ensure ubiquitous TLS encryption on the public XMPP network, use DNSSEC and DANE in XMPP, more widely implement the Off-the-Record (OTR) protocol, and support both key pinning and certificate transparency.”  [Read More]

The 15th Summit is fast approaching! On January 30th and 31st 2014 we will be meeting to talk about all things XSF and XMPP. The rough agenda is being worked on and we are also in the final stages of getting information about hotels. To keep current about the details, please do visit the wiki page for Summit 15 often!  [Read More]

Tomorrow many of the folks who run public (and some that run private) facing XMPP servers will be doing a ubiquitous security test of the XMPP network. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP server operators are turning on TLS encryption for s2s and c2s connections and testing to see what doesn’t work and what needs more work. The participants of this effort would like you to join others in the XMPP community and help secure users private communications.  [Read More]

Alex has started the membership application process for Q4 2013. Members whose renewals are up this quarter will need to file new applications by December 31st 2013. The list of those who need to renew can be found at 2013 Q4 membership applications.  [Read More]

The XSF will once again be attending FOSDEM 2014 and we will showcase the latest developments in bringing XMPP into the browser as a first class citizen and demonstrating how XMPP can be used in today’s world. We will also explore and demonstrate how XMPP can be used to solve many of the issues in today’s world of connected devices. The XSF will be part of the Internet-of-Things room and will show IoT technology based on the released IoT extensions.  [Read More]

In just 34 days the first full test run of ubiquitous security on the XMPP network will be attempted by many service operators. Like the IPv6 test days, on the 4th January XMPP server operators are turning on TLS encryption for s2s and c2s connections and testing to see what doesn’t work and what needs more work. The participants of this effort would like you to join others in the XMPP community and help secure users private communications.  [Read More]

The third XMPP/Realtime UK Meetup will be happening on the 2nd of December, 2013. The details can be found at the meetup’s lanyrd page or through the meetup page The guest speaker will be Joachim Lindborg and Lloyd Watkinabout the XMPP extensions he and Peter Waher have been working on.  [Read More]

On the 21rst November we will meet and use Python to build on raspberry developer kits and connect things through the XMPP IoT extensions. At the meetup event we will have sensors and actuators connected to raspberries and create interoperable interchange of data with the help of XMPP. Interested in how XMPP could be used in the Internet of Things arena contact the organizer Joachim Lindborg XSF or Peter Waher XSF  [Read More]

Simon posted on the jdev mailing list a great reminder about the upcoming test day quoted below: “We owe it to our user’s to provide secure communications” - St Peter. To achieve ubiquitous encryption between clients and servers on XMPP, we’re doing a phased approach similar to the ipv6 test days. 4th January is the first test day of full XMPP encryption. The aim - see what breaks when all XMPP sites enable secure communication. February 22, 2014 - second test day March 22, 2014 - third test day April 19, 2014 - fourth test day May 19, 2014 - permanent upgrade This mean that you should:  [Read More]

Joachim is in the US (San Francisco specifically) and would love to get together with anyone from the XMPP and/or IoT community! His original goal was to attend the Doing IoT with XMPP meetup. Either way you should poke him on the members@ mailing list to at least find a pub and raise a pint or three! Thanks Joachim!  [Read More]