Re: IM and Presence history

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John C Klensin wrote:
Having to configure multiple IM accounts, ...>

No question about it.  I was thinking partially about Jabber,

Right. Which was why I said "proprietary". (Jabber, having been turned into XMPP, nicely dodges that qualifier...)


with interoperability between implementations and hosts,

From some recent experiences, it is looking as if it still needs to go through some implementation learning curve. I suspect it's not a protocol issue, but I've seen some interoperability problems and would bet the issue was software maturity.


 and Skype with (at
least as I understand it) a fairly distributed architecture.  As to the rest,

oh.


I think there is another interesting story in the fact that multiprotocol
clients seem more effective and useful, and much more widely used and
deployed, for IM than their equivalents were for email.  Part of it is

Maybe. I'm seeing enough oddities with the popular, multi-protocol IM client that I use to continue to believe that the combinatorials that are inherent with multiple, competing protocols make long-term viability a real question.

Back when I wrote email gatewaying software -- and it's design was with a canonical model that each service was mapped to/from -- I know that every time I added a new email service, I had to go into the core and make tweaks. Or sometimes deeper changes.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net

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