XMPP Standards Foundation


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XMPP Standards Foundation is the foundation in charge of the standardization of the protocol extensions of XMPP/Jabber, the open standard of instant messaging and presence of the IETF.

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History

The XSF was originally called the "Jabber Software Foundation" (JSF).

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Process

Members of the XSF vote on acceptance of new members, a technical Council. and a Board of Directors. However, membership is not required to publish, view, or comment on the standards that it promulgates. The unit of work at the XSF is the XMPP Extension Proposal (XEP); XEP-001[1] specifies the process for XEPs to be accepted by the community. Most of the work of the XSF takes place on the XMPP Extension Discussion List [2] and the jdev Chat Room (xmpp:jdev@conference.jabber.org?join).

Organization

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the XMPP Standards Foundation oversees the business affairs of the organization. As elected by the XSF membership, the Board of Directors for 2008-2009 consists of the following individuals:

Council

The XMPP Council is the technical steering group that approves XMPP Extension Protocols, as governed by the XSF Bylaws and XEP-0001. The Council is elected by the members of the XMPP Standards Foundation each year in September. The eighth XMPP Council (2008-2009) consists of the following individuals:

  • Peter Saint-Andre
  • Ralph Meijer
  • Jack Moffit
  • Kevin Smith (Chair)
  • Dave Cridland

Members

There are currently 58 elected members[3] of the XSF.

Emeritus Members

The following individuals are emeritus members of the Jabber Software Foundation:

XEPs

One of the most important outputs of the XSF is a series[4] of XEPs. Some have chosen to pronounce "XEP" as if it was spelled "JEP", rather than "ZEP", in order to keep with a sense of tradition. Some XEPs of note include:

  • Data Forms[5]
  • Service Discovery[6]
  • Multi-User Chat[7]
  • Publish-Subscribe[8]
  • XHTML-IM[9]
  • Entity Capabilities[10]
  • Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH)[11]

References

  1. ^ XEP-0001
  2. ^ XMPP Extension Discussion List
  3. ^ XSF Member List
  4. ^ XMPP Extensions list
  5. ^ Data Forms XEP
  6. ^ Service Discovery XEP
  7. ^ Multi-User Chat XEP
  8. ^ Publish-Subscribe XEP
  9. ^ XHTML-IM XEP
  10. ^ Entity Capabilities XEP
  11. ^ Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) XEP

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