IM networks like Aol, Skype, MSN and Yahoo should be able to chat with XMPP/Jabber networks
By
katoh
on December 06, 2007
It'd do the world a big favor
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Keep on dreamin'
That would probably require AIM, MSN, and Yahoo to run Jabber servers. Because the other option is completely compromising the XMPP spec to get it to play nicely with those other protocols
There's another option, there, between everyone-speaks-the-same-language and Jabber-speaks-every-language.
You could define a gateway system, that can convert between the various protocols. Which (he says, not knowing any of the protocols in question) shouldn't be too difficult, as they are generally known.
Such a system would make inter-protocol communication possible. Admittedly, it would need to be able to auto-provision accounts for new protocols. And other potentially hard things.
The big networks wouldn't need to run jabber servers, but would need to make their servers federatable, which means it needs to be able to talk xmpp to other servers, and needs to be able to authenticate them openly.
Most public jabber servers can do this, some corporate ones have it switched off so the users can only chat within the company while at work.
Good news! AOL is trialling a Jabber service.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/18/1748218