On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:33 -0700, Jordan Gunderson wrote: > Corey Edwards wrote: > [snip] > > The real solution here would be for AOL to build an AIM-Jabber bridge, > > so you would just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the bridge > > translates that to AIM. Having AOL host the bridge would solve so many > > problems, foremost being that not every single Jabber server has to run > > the AIM transport. > > I may be wrong here, but wouldn't the real solution involve AOL, MS, and > Yahoo all using an open protocol (in this case Jabber)? An open > protocol would let users of said IM systems communicate with each other > (and users of other jabber systems) without having to have an account in > each.
I think you missed what I mean. AOL doesn't run a Jabber server where everybody has to register and set up an AIM transport. The Jabber server would dynamically bridge between all the AIM accounts and Jabber accounts. So [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That gets routed to AOL's AIM-Jabber bridge where it sends the message via AIM to aolbuddy. Of course, having AIM support XMPP natively would be bonus too, but this bridge would be a lot simpler considering the large installed base of AIM clients. Corey
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