Richard Shockey wrote: > this is XML > messaging ...why didnt the Jabber community choose OASIS or W3C..which > strikes me as a more logical home for these kind of things and there is a > larger community of XML expertise there. But using XML is not the hard part. Using XML is nearly trivial; it's just an encoding. Protocols are hard, and that's where the IETF has expertise. -- /========================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc.| |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own.| |========================================================| |This is the .sig that says... Ni! | \========================================================/