I wish Boeing would adopt jabber :). We do have jabber in SoSCOE which
is an army product but not as an enterprise IM tool. Instead we have
Thanks for the explanation Peter.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:stpeter at jabber.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:07 PM
To: Jabber end-user discussion list
Subject: Re: Federation: (was: Re: [Juser] Re: Google Jabber servers)
Post by Williams, Kevin CI'm not familiar with the federation concept of jabber. It sounds
like it would allow other jabber servers to communicate with each
other allowing user1 from server1 to communicate with user2 on
server2? If so, are there efforts to allow for federation between
jabber and non-jabber messaging systems such as yahoo!, msn AND AIM?
Jabber is essentially just like email (except it is more
secure because you can't fake your from address etc.). Just
as on email I
(stpeter at jabber.org) can send a message to you (we'll call
you kevin at boeing.com), so on Jabber I (also
stpeter at jabber.org) can send a message to most anyone who has
a Jabber account (e.g., perhaps also kevin at boeing.com),
unless their domain (e.g., boeing.com) does not allow what we
call "server to server" connections. Right now, Google Talk
does not have server to server functionality turned on (in
fact I don't even think they've coded it up yet), so their
service is not "federated" with the rest of the network.
Eventually it will (we hope), but not yet.
As to Yahoo, MSN, and AIM -- we've been working on that for
the last 6 years by trying to make the Jabber/XMPP network
larger and larger, getting big companies to adopt our
technology, etc. I've written about it recently here (scroll
http://www.jabber.org/journal/2005-08-24.shtml
Hope that helps,
Peter
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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml