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The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) will hold an XMPP interoperability testing event on July 24 and 25, 2006, at the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) in Portland, Oregon, USA. This is the same week as O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON). The purpose of this event is to test interoperability between multiple implementations of the XMPP RFCs (3920 and 3921). All participants will be expected to file implementation reports (in accordance with a format and template yet to be developed), which will form one input to the process of advancing the XMPP specifications from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard within the Internet Standards Process at the IETF (see RFC 2026). The other expected outcome will be a consensus set of proposed modifications and clarifications to the XMPP RFCs for discussion on the mailing list of the XMPP WG after the event concludes (see http://www.xmpp.org/xmppbis.html for provisional examples). The main focus of this event will be server testing. Testing of clients that are in or near full compliance with the XMPP RFCs will also occur (XMPP is a client-server technology, so we need both), but given the large number of Jabber/XMPP clients it will not be feasible to test very many clients. A set of test cases will be published several months in advance for use by the participants. The test cases will focus only on protocol compliance, not scalability, reliability, ease of use, or other such factors. This will be a small, developer-only event. No customers, no marketing people, no guano. All bugs will stay in the room. The JSF will charge a small, nominal fee for participation (yet to be determined) in order to cover costs associated with OSDL's hosting of the event. This fee will be waived for open-source developers. Space is limited because of the venue (a conference room at OSDL). Therefore it is possible that we will need to restrict access (e.g., impose a limit of one representative per company or project). Ideally this would not be necessary, but we're doing the best we can. This is not a more general developer conference. While the JSF may hold such conferences in the future, this is a small, focused, interop testing event. However, participants are encouraged to attend OSCON (same week, same city) and to get involved in Jabber-related activities there. If you are interested in participating in this event, please contact me directly via IM, email, or phone (not on this list) using the addresses listed here: http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml Finally, I would like to thank OSDL for generously offering to host this event. Thanks also to the existing sponsors of the JSF for making events such as this possible. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD/iG8NF1RSzyt3NURAsvkAKCESv88KW23kUzLqgbyX5Y7h6CfJwCeNWtu fSJOca/fRQDj1oQ/fQR6RnE= =t8N0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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