XMPP Standards Foundation

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The XMPP Standards Foundation ( XSF ) (before 2007: Jabber Software Foundation , JSF ) is a non-profit foundation that specifies and promotes the XMPP protocol. The XSF operates the mailing lists on which the specification of the protocol as XMPP Extension Protocols are developed. The current President of the XSF, Peter Saint-Andre , is now the XEP Editor . The XSF is supported by Google , Hewlett-Packard , Jabber Inc. and others. The XSF operates one of the largest public XMPP servers, jabber.org .

Origin: The Jabber Project

The Jabber project is an open source project that was started by Jeremie Miller in early 1998 with the aim of creating a free alternative to proprietary instant messaging solutions such as ICQ etc., which were emerging at the time .

The first goal was the specification and documentation of an XML- based protocol, which is known today as Jabber, as well as the free first implementation of it. The first XMPP server jabberd was then published in May 2000 as the first serious version.

History since the foundation of the XSF

  • In August 2001, the foundation was established to maintain the specification and manage extensions to the protocol (the XEPs ).
  • In 2002 some members of the XSF came together for the XMPP working group to publish the protocol as an official standard at the IETF . This only happened in 2004 in the form of 4 RFCs .
  • In 2007 the Jabber Software Foundation was renamed the XMPP Standards Foundation.

organization

Board of Directors

The "Board of Directors" is responsible for the business management of the XSF and consists of the following people from 2007-2008:

Council

The Council is the technical lead of the XSF. The seventh XMPP Council (2007-2008) consists of the following people:

Members

The XSF has 51 elected members, five of them "emeritus".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History and Standards
  2. ↑ XSF board
  3. ^ XMPP Council
  4. ↑ XSF Member List

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