I see the only viable way to solve this AOL issue is to make jabber so good that AIM/ICQ users will switch to it, once AOL sees that they are lossing all of their users im sure they will start talking about and allowing interoperability to try and keep users. Also all the recent AIM security problems may also help get people to move away from AIM once Jabber has all the features it does, also being able to control employee IM usage and prevent sensitive chat leaving the company keeping everything local will also help get businesses to move to Jabber. So what we need to do is not waste our time trying to get around AOL's blocks and just intice AIM users away and onto Jabber by making it much better than AIM.
Things that I see need to be worked on are the following: A file transfer standard (it maybe in some clients but a universal standard needs to be established, in which people can directly send files to each other, not just via an HTTP server) Voice/Video conferencing standard Whiteboarding standard Shared application startup (games, netmeeting, etc) IM client web services (e.g. MSN's new webservices, expedia, alerts etc) Avatars Proper Blocking HTTP connection jabber servers (needs to be completed and supported in clients) Emoticons (that can maybe be embedded/linked to within messages so that different clients can see the same graphical emoticon, even if they dont already have support for a particular emoticon) Anyway these are my thoughts Richard _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
