XMPP Standards Foundation

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Official logo of the XMPP Standards Foundation
Official logo of the XMPP Standards Foundation

XMPP Standards Foundation[1] is the foundation in charge of the standardization of the protocol extensions of XMPP/Jabber, the open standard of instant messaging and presence of the IETF.

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[edit] History

The XSF was originally called the "Jabber Software Foundation" (JSF).

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[edit] Process

Members of the XSF vote on acceptance of new members, a technical Council. and a Board of Directors. However, membership is not required to publish, view, or comment on the standards that it promulgates. The unit of work at the XSF is the XMPP Extension Proposal (XEP); XEP-001[2] specifies the process for XEPs to be accepted by the community. Most of the work of the XSF takes place on the XMPP Extension Discussion List [3] and the jdev Chat Room (xmpp:jabber@conference.jabber.org?join).

[edit] Organization

[edit] Board of Directors

The Board of Directors for 2007-2008 consists of the following individuals:

  • Alexander Gnauck (Chair)
  • Jack Moffitt
  • Mickaël Rémond

[edit] Council

The seventh XMPP Council (2007-2008) consists of the following individuals:

  • Peter Saint-Andre (Chair)
  • Ralph Meijer
  • Ian Paterson
  • Kevin Smith
  • Dave Cridland

[edit] Members

There are currently 49 elected members[4] of the XSF.

[edit] Emeritus Members

The following individuals are emeritus members of the Jabber Software Foundation:

[edit] XEPs

One of the most important outputs of the XSF is a series[5] of XEPs. Some have chosen to pronounce "XEP" as if it was spelled "JEP", rather than "ZEP", in order to keep with a sense of tradition. Some XEPs of note include:

  • Data Forms[6]
  • Service Discovery[7]
  • Multi-User Chat[8]
  • Publish-Subscribe[9]
  • XHTML-IM[10]
  • Entity Capabilities[11]
  • Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH)[12]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Official website of the XMPP Standards Foundation
  2. ^ XEP-0001
  3. ^ XMPP Extension Discussion List
  4. ^ XSF Member List
  5. ^ XMPP Extensions list
  6. ^ Data Forms XEP
  7. ^ Service Discovery XEP
  8. ^ Multi-User Chat XEP
  9. ^ Publish-Subscribe XEP
  10. ^ XHTML-IM XEP
  11. ^ Entity Capabilities XEP
  12. ^ Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) XEP

[edit] External links