Universal Instant Messaging

Date: Nov. 7, 2000
Link: http://oreilly.xml.com/pub/a/linux/2000/10/27/rt.html
Source Author or Organization: O'Reilly Network Weekly Open Source Roundtable

The topic for this O'Reilly Network Open Source Roundtable the Jabber open source instant messaging protocol.

The discussion covers: America Online's AIM (America Online Instant Messenger) protocol and how it works, the need for an open instant messaging protocol, the Jabber Open XML Protocol, the Jabber architecture, Jabber clients and their ability to communicate with various instant messaging protocols, having several messaging protocol windows open at once in more sophisticated Jabber clients, the proliferation of Jabber clients, and security in Jabber and other instant messaging systems.

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