RE: Social Web Charter: Scope / XMPP

I have made some enquires. Will let you know about developments ...
Cheers
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: public-xg-socialweb-request@w3.org [mailto:public-xg-socialweb-
|request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Harry Halpin
|Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:43 PM
|To: Melvin Carvalho
|Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
|Subject: Re: Social Web Charter: Scope / XMPP
|
|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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