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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]

The XSF is currently holding its quarterly membership application period Q2/2011 According to Alex’s records the following members have to reapply: 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. Reappliers should already have a wiki account, so please visit the wiki and create your page until 10th Mai 2011 at 23:59:59 UTC if you want to reapply. [Read More]

If you are a student submitting a project for the XSF’s GSoC 2011 please remember that the deadline for submission is Fri, April 8, 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT).

You have until this deadline to update your submission and respond to review questions - after this deadline the ability to edit will be gone.

The RFC Editor has announced that RFC 6120 (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core), RFC 6121 (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence) and RFC 6122 (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Address Format) are now official RFC documents produced by the IETF! This is a huge milestone for the XSF because it means that the core specifications for XMPP have been updated to incorporate years of implementation and deployment experience with our technologies. [Read More]