On Thu May 15 09:32:12 2008, Richard Dobson wrote:
That's what I'm afraid of as well. Probably that they will also
create
their own extensions like Google does. That's always a risk with
companies
that claim using open standards... well to a certain extent.
Just have to see what happens, although I highly doubt they are
going to create a whole load of their own custom extensions without
going through the XSF as that would be pretty pointless as you
wouldnt be able to use those features in all the current clients,
and I doubt they are going to create their own as one of the stated
objectives seems to be that you can use the XMPP client of your
choice.
Facebook may well believe that clients will simply implement their
extensions. After all, clients implemented Facebook connectivity
before, and plenty of people implement Google's proprietary
extensions, too, so it's a remarkably safe bet.
I'm not sure I really mind that, either - or wouldn't at least if
there were a reasonable chance that Google, Facebook, etc would
converge on a single standard for these things, and use the XSF and
XMPP community as well as just the protocol. It's this that I sadly
doubt.
Dave.
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