>They released sample implementations under open source licenses, encouraged others to run their own Wave servers independent of Google infrastructure, and defi

>They released sample implementations under open source licenses, encouraged others to run their own Wave servers independent of Google infrastructure, and defined a federation protocol (on top of Jabber/XMPP) so that people on different servers could still talk with each other. With the caveat that this was of course several years ago, I seem to recall the reference implementation missing several major features. Private replies were notably absent. It was all properly specced out, but the only available server software was incomplete - at least, it was when I tried running it.