--On 23. juli 2002 21:49 -0400 "Peterson, Jon" <jon.peterson@neustar.biz> wrote: > I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that chartering a new > WG today that competes directly with SIMPLE would be taken by many to mean > that the IETF still has not arrived at a workable solution (and no doubt > some proponents of XMPP feel that to be the case). I think the single step most useful to stem this perception is to get the CPIM documents out the door and published, have at least one IM-transport protocol publish its interface to CPIM, and having running code that proves that the resulting functionality is in fact useful. Pair of facts beats house of prediction. Harald