- From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 23:43:06 +0300
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking at the swxg charter, under the title Scope [1] > > "Other technology groups we hope to engage include microblogging, > microformats, XMPP/Jabber, dataportability.org, and privacy groups." > > I think there's been a great start on this front, and of course it's > fortunate that Dan is on the board of data portability. > > However, it strikes me that XMPP is under represented, unless I've > missed something. I think XMPP has a lot to teach us as is is a > mature community with core features close to the goals of this group. > > - Distributed Architecture > - Socially oriented, ability to link relationships from one disjoint > network to another > - (Portable) groups and rosters > - Existing rich clients available via web / browser addon / desktop / mobile > > - Operates in reatlime but also offline > - Extensible plugin architecture > - Structured and namespaced (XML) communication protocol > - Security and Encryption > > There are few systems out there that can boast such a feature list. > > As such, do you think it may be an idea to engage the XSF [2], or > anyone have a good contact there? +1 If anyone knows how to get in touch with XMPP, and in particular how they would like to interact or what issues they want to discuss with the W3C, I really would like to initiate discussion. Note that charter URI [1] is old. The current charter is here [2], but yes, it still mentions XMPP. [1]http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/drafts/soccharter.html [2]http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/charter > [1] http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/drafts/soccharter.html > [2] http://xmpp.org/xsf/board/ > >
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