User:Davelane/jabber rw

Notes on how this article should work

1) make a page Jabber_IM

2) Make the jabber page a disambiguation page with a brief guide to jabber protocol possibly

3) Take the content to either jabber_im jabber_disambiguation or XMPP

New Jabber page

Blurb about how jabber is without sounding like the current marketing/techie junk

Jabber is a Internet Protocol mainly used for Instant messaging and Presence. it can be used for a number..... such as "Jabber applications beyond IM include network management, content syndication, collaboration tools, file sharing, gaming, and remote systems monitoring."

Most exposure is for Jabber Instant Messaging please see the seperate article for information on how to use Jabber for instant messaging

Jabber_IM

INTO

''Jabber is a system for instant messaging (IM) and presence information. It's aim is to replace propritary IM systems with a common standard, in a similar way that Simple Mail Transport Protocol did for email in the 1980's. Like email, it is a distributed system so there are many servers and clients - It's impossible to calculate how many Jabber users and servers exist as not all of them are accessable over the internet.

People generally use Jabber because...

HOW IT WORKS

see also XMPP

HISTORY

jm... GOOD/BAD points (seeming as some many people seem to think this is important