The XMPP Blog

Alexander Gnauck has announced to the members@xmpp.org mailing list that the membership application Wiki page for the next application period is ready. Now is the time to start looking for new members, or remind those who have dropped to reapply. The following XSF members have to reapply: Will Thompson Waqas Hussain Alexey Melnikov Kurt Zeilenga Michael Grigutsch Tuomas Koski Steffen Larsen Guillaume LeGales Joe Maissel Peter Mount Steven Parkes Luca Tagliaferri Mike Taylor  [Read More]

Microsoft has announced that it is adding support for XMPP to its Windows Live APIs, enabling any application or IM network to interoperate with Windows Live Messenger. Details are available at liveside.net and dev.live.com.  [Read More]

Each year the members of the XSF choose new people to provide technical leadership on the XMPP Council and business leadership on the XSF Board of Directors. These roles typically require only a few hours a week over the one-year term, and are a great way to get involved in the XMPP community. If you’re interested in volunteering or know someone else who might be, visit the wiki page or ask one of the current Board or Council members for insights.  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]

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.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q3/2011  [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.  [Read More]

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.  [Read More]

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/.  [Read More]

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. Because stringprep is being deprecated by the IETF for internationalized domain names, various application technologies that use stringprep for identifiers other than domain names (e.g., usernames and passwords) need to develop a new approach to comparing protocol strings.  [Read More]