While the world awaits an IETF-approved standard, Jabber provides companies with in open platform for instant messaging today. Miller said support from developers and employees alike landed on the Jabber solution to instant messaging interoperability. He added that should the Jabber platform be adopted by the IETF, instant messaging would truly achieve its potential to become one of the most important and successful open source projects in the industry. May. According to the working group, several thousand copies of the application were downloaded within weeks of its release. Technicians and system administrators fired up hundreds of Jabber-based instant messaging servers after installing and configuring the application through their networks.
Instant messaging is more than a way to ping pals to see if they're online.
It's recognized as one of the strategic gateways to consumer adoption of voice over IP, as well as wireless communication services. Fighting the Big Blue Triangle While several instant messaging firms complain that AOL is blocking access to its instant messaging services, FreeIM.org announced it was creating a coalition of instant messaging companies to petition government agencies for a shared access standard. FreeIM.org filed petitions with the Federal Communication Commission and the Federal Trade Commission last week as a point of contention to AOL's proposed merger with Time Warner . Unlike most activities that take place on the Internet, instant messaging currently has no standard. Much like the e-mail industry in the 1980s, consistent standards are a precondition to widespread adoption.