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What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence?
by zaik 5y ago
What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence?
- nobody9999 5y ago>What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence? That's a wonderful idea. In fact, we've had such a standard since 1999 (protocol codified in 2004[0]) It's called XMPP[1] [0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
- wtetzner 5y agoNot only that, but a lot of closed messaging platforms were originally built on XMPP.
- hnlmorg 5y agoThere's been a few open standards. The problem isn't that standards exist, it's that walled gardens are generally more profitable. In fact Google Talk, Facebook Messenger and Skype were all either based upon, or supported XMPP...and now don't. Slack used to support IRC and not doesn't. There's a term often credited to Microsoft that also applies here: embrace, extend, extinguish.
- javagram 5y agoSMS, MMS, and RCS are examples of such standards, although only SMS/MMS have full support on both iphone and android.