Official logo of the XMPP Standards Foundation

XMPP Standards Foundation is the foundation in charge of the standardization of the protocol extensions of XMPP, the open standard of instant messaging and presence of the IETF.

[edit] History

The XSF was originally called the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF).

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[edit] Process

Members of the XSF vote on acceptance of new members, a technical Council. and a Board of Directors. However, membership is not required to publish, view, or comment on the standards that it promulgates. The unit of work at the XSF is the XMPP Extension Proposal (XEP); XEP-001^[1] specifies the process for XEPs to be accepted by the community. Most of the work of the XSF takes place on the XMPP Extension Discussion List ^[2] and the jdev Chat Room (xmpp:jdev@conference.jabber.org?join).

[edit] Organization

[edit] Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the XMPP Standards Foundation oversees the business affairs of the organization. As elected by the XSF membership, the Board of Directors for 2009-2010 consists of the following individuals:

• Jack Moffitt
• Will Sheward
• Florian Jensen

[edit] Council

The XMPP Council is the technical steering group that approves XMPP Extension Protocols, as governed by the XSF Bylaws and XEP-0001. The Council is elected by the members of the XMPP Standards Foundation each year in September. The ninth XMPP Council (2009-2010) consists of the following individuals:

• Ralph Meijer
• Kevin Smith (Chair)
• Dave Cridland
• Remko Tronçon
• Matthew Wild

[edit] Members

There are currently 58 elected members^[3] of the XSF.

[edit] Emeritus Members

The following individuals are emeritus members of the XMPP Standards Foundation:

• Ryan Eatmon
• Peter Millard
• Jeremie Miller
• Julian Missig
• Thomas Muldowney
• Dave Smith

[edit] XEPs

One of the most important outputs of the XSF is a series^[4] of XEPs. Some have chosen to pronounce "XEP" as if it was spelled "JEP", rather than "ZEP", in order to keep with a sense of tradition. Some XEPs of note include:

• Data Forms^[5]
• Service Discovery^[6]
• Multi-User Chat^[7]
• Publish-Subscribe^[8]
• XHTML-IM^[9]
• Entity Capabilities^[10]
• Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH)^[11]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website of the XMPP Standards Foundation
• XSF Membership compared to other standardization organizations