Hello Stephen -- I actually covered that in section 1.2 of the first
draft attempt standard :-)
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1.2 Precedent

Real-time text is not new. It has been around for decades. Early chat
software commonly utilized real-time text in a character-by-character
format.

- The 'talk' command on UNIX systems has been using real-time text for
many years, since the 1970's.
- ICQ, the first major instant messaging application, had a split
screen mode with real-time text back in 1996-1999 before this feature
was removed.
- Hobby BBS chat programs from the 1990's often utilized real-time text.
- Recently, in 2008, it has been implemented as part of AOL AIM 6.8
and higher as AOL Real-Time IM [1]
- In SIP calls, real-time text is defined and used with presentation
coding as specified in ITU-T T.140 [2] and transport specified in IETF
RFC 4103 [3].



On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Stephen Pendleton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe that AIM currently supports realtime typing, but it requires a 
> direct connection between the clients to make it work. Have you considered an 
> "out-of-band" solution to this problem? I am not sure how well this current 
> implementation will work with rate limited XMPP servers.
>
> Also, I think ICQ had this feature back in 1998! And UNIX had ntalk/ytalk 
> even before that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Gunnar Hellström
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Standards] Review: XEP-xxxx: In-Band Real Time Text
>
> ....
>
> I cannot believe this. I think real-time text is next hot development in
> the IM world.
> ...
>
>
>

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