The XMPP Blog

Skype has added support for XMPP to its latest Windows beta, according to Phil Wolff of Skype Journal. Janko Roettgers provides further analysis at GigaOM.

This is yet another demonstration of the power of open standards.

We are currently holding the quarterly membership application period Q3/2011. According to Alex’s records the following members have to reapply: David Czech Debo Dutta Ludovic Gilbon Tony Shen Abhinav Singh Douglas Abbink Aaron Axelsen Diana Cionoiu Sebastiaan Deckers Peter Ferne Nathanael Fritz Joe Hildebrand Florian Jensen Bartosz Malkowski Tobias Markmann Ralph Meijer Dirk Meyer Matthew Miller Edwin Mons Peter Saint-Andre Jonathan Schleifer Jonathan Siegle Remko Tronçon Nicolas Vérité Those who are reapplying should already have a Wiki account for creating their application page at: http://wiki. [Read More]

Jingle (XEP-0166 and XEP-0167) is the voice and media signalling protocol developed by Google, Collabora, Yate, Tandberg and Jabber Inc (the latter two now part of Cisco), and standardized within the XSF. Seen by many as key for an open-standard consumer VOIP system to compete with Skype and others, the specifications moved from Experimental to Draft status two years ago, and have been implemented in a large number of clients, including desktop and mobile handset environments. [Read More]

The XSF has issued a Last Call on XEP-0262, which describes implementation considerations related to audio codecs for use in Jingle RTP sessions, and recommends PCMU and PCMA (G.711) as mandatory-to-implement technologies to provide a baseline for interoperability.

If you have feedback, please post to the jingle@xmpp.org or standards@xmpp.org discussion list before July 8, 2011.

Earlier today, the XSF advanced XEP-0262 from Experimental to Draft in our standards process. This specification defines how to use ZRTP with Jingle for end-to-end encryption of audio and video sessions, thus supplementing the existing SRTP method defined in XEP-0167.

Special thanks to the Jitsi team for providing implementation feedback.

FYI, if you’re a fan of Strophe.js and/or libstrophe then you need to make sure to update your bookmarks as the site has moved. You can now find all of the Strophe goodness at strophe.im.

UPDATE: The hsxmpp project has moved too, the new site is http://חנוך.se/hsxmpp/.

As you might recall from our Brussels trip report a few months ago, the XMPP community has a bit of work to do on internationalization. It’s not that XMPP messages or addresses can’t include non-ASCII characters, because we’ve had that capability since 1999. The problem comes from our dependence on a technology called stringprep (RFC 3454), which we use to compare JabberIDs for tasks like authentication and authorization of users and servers. [Read More]

A reminder from Ludovic Bocquet that May 19th, 2011 is Open Discussion Day. From their wiki page: Since 2006, on May 19^th^, we celebrate the Open Discussion Day, a day to promote open communication systems and protocols. Imagine an internet where it is only possible to send emails to people who used the same email provider as you, or only view websites that are hosted on your internet provider’s servers. Naturally, these barriers go against the principles of the internet, and thankfully those days are long gone. [Read More]

Members who are in the list below have until the 10th of May to do reapply. You should already have a wiki account, so please visit the wiki and create your page.

Membership Applications April 2011

• Fabio Forno
• Artur Hefczyc
• Arc Riley
• Kevin Smith
• Safa Sofuoglu
• Mike Taylor
• Ilya Braude
• Aaron LaFramboise
• Eero Neuenschwander
• David Richards
• Jakob Schröter
• Eamonn Shaw

Please contact Alex if the above list is wrong.

With the selection process over, we now know that the XSF will be working with five students for the 2011 Google Summer of Code! Abmar Grangeiro de Barros - Pubsub Search Engine and Crawler Kunal Kerkar - Implementing Jingle Relay Nodes, STUN support and CAPTCHA plugin in Prosody Jefry Lagrange - Stream Management in Gajim Tobias Markmann - Jingle based File-Transfer Support in Swift(-en) Vlad Voicu - Swift: Conversation History Everyone remember to welcome them and let’s all work towards another successful GSoC. [Read More]