Press Kit | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

Press Kit | XMPP - The universal messaging standard
Press Kit
What is XMPP
XMPP (E
tensible
essaging and
resence
rotocol) is a powerful, open, secure, standards-based protocol. It is a freely-available technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of applications including
instant messaging
online gaming
, presence, collaboration,
voice and video calling
Internet of Things
, tactical military messaging,
mobile cloud push
, and
more
XMPP was originally developed in the Jabber open-source community to provide an open, decentralized alternative to the closed instant messaging services at that time. XMPP offers
several key advantages
over such services.
Our mission
The
XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF)
is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization with the mission to build an open, secure, feature-rich, federated infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet. We seek to achieve that goal by developing the world’s best open protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication, based on the
IETF
’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). By “best” we mean simplest, most extensible, most powerful, most secure. Moreover, we value freedom, openness, and good technical design.
The XSF’s product is
protocols
; the XSF’s market is developers. We do not write code; instead, we make it possible for others to write code. We listen to developers, service providers, and end users regarding the kinds of problems they want to solve, and we work with them to create protocols that solve those problems. Our
standards process
is developer-friendly. We strenuously avoid design by committee and we place a premium on the values that built the Internet in the first place: rough consensus and running code. Read more in our
mission statement
Resources
Who owns XMPP? Who uses XMPP? How secure is XMPP? Read our
FAQ
for answers. You can find XMPP on
Mastodon
. Read more about XMPP:
XMPP Standards
Getting Started with XMPP
XMPP Software
Blog
History
Contact
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