Jabber Software Foundation to Hold XMPP Interop Test Event July 24-25, 2006; Meeting in Portland, Ore., to Coincide with O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON).

DENVER -- The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) will soon hold an interoperability testing event related to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), a standard for presence and near-real-time messaging approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2004.

The JSF reports that the main focus of the event is server testing, though testing of clients that are in or near full compliance with the XMPP specifications will also occur. Completion of interoperability testing will help to improve the robustness of various open-source and commercial XMPP implementations. In addition, the resulting interoperability reports will be one input to advancement of the XMPP specifications (Request for Comments (RFC) 3920 and 3921) from Proposed Standard to Draft Standard within the IETF's Internet Standard Process.

According to Peter Saint-Andre, executive director of the JSF, "this will be a small, developer-only event, and the JSF will charge a nominal fee for commercial participants to cover costs associated with the Open Source Developer Labs' hosting of this event." The fee will be waived for open-source developers.

The test event will coincide with the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, the week of July 24. For detailed information and registration procedures, visit http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Interop_Event.

About Jabber, XMPP, and the Jabber Software Foundation

The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) is a non-profit organization that builds open application protocols on top of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Widely considered the lingua franca of instant messaging, XMPP is an Internet standard for presence, real-time messaging, and streaming Extensible Markup Language (XML) data that grew out of the popular Jabber open-source technologies first released in 1999. With approval of XMPP by the IETF in 2004, the JSF continues to develop XMPP extensions that meet the needs of its many stakeholders: open-source and commercial developers (including Apple, HP, Oracle, and Sun), organizations large and small (including the U.S. defense establishment and most Wall Street investment banks), Internet and mobile service providers (including Google, NTT, and Orange), and over 25 million end users worldwide.

For further information, visit http://www.jabber.org/ or contact JSF Executive Director Peter Saint-Andre.