This is one of the exact goals of the Foundation, to have a formalized process for working on the protocol. Jabelin will then be the group to work on server development. Some more info about this should be out today or tomorrow. --temas On 11 May 2001 08:50:50 -0500, Iain Shigeoka wrote: > At 02:42 PM 5/9/2001 -0500, John Hebert wrote: > > > > On second thought - David Waite's right - we have to look at separating > > > protocol from server implementation. > > > >My point all along. Apache has the W3C. What does Jabber have? Do we > >need a separate jabber protocol effort separate from the server devel effort? > > Yes. We need to separate protocol from implementation. Most people I've > spoken to are at least philosophically in agreement on this issue. This > has been a problem since Jabber has evolved as an implementation that > defined the protocol. IMHO the time has really come to split the protocol > off. Jabber has remained coherent until now because there has only been > one server implementation available so the implementation has defined the > protocol. However, as Jabber.com now as a separate server (albiet very > closely related) and there are other efforts to develop servers, a separate > protocol standard is going to become essential. As I understand it, this > is something that we can use the Jabber Foundation as a tool to help us > accomplish. > > FYI, I'm very interested in the protocol and implementing my own Jabber > server (in Java not Python) and have little/no interest in the current C > implementation. Reading the protocol docs from this perspective has really > been what's gotten me interested in better defining the protocols to stand > alone from the implementation. As it stands now, it is pretty much > impossible to write a server based on the existing protocols because they > are incomplete. In addition, there is no way to test your protocol > compliance except in relationship to the current C implementation. I'm > hoping to also work on addressing that issue as well (standard compliance > when a standard exists). > > -iain > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
