XMPP failed like RSS failed - the original vision for the protocol effectively died, but the protocol is in wide use despite that. Essentially, XMPP's federati

XMPP failed like RSS failed - the original vision for the protocol effectively died, but the protocol is in wide use despite that. Essentially, XMPP's federation goal was antithetical to the vested interests of messaging providers so it was ignored. But the protocol itself was relatively well designed and so formed the basis of a lot of what we use today.