History of XMPP | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

History of XMPP | XMPP - The universal messaging standard
History of XMPP
1999
January:
Jeremie Miller announces the existence of Jabber; an open technology for instant messaging and presence. Throughout the year development moves quickly on an open source server (jabberd), several open-source clients and code libraries, and open wire protocols for real-time XML streaming; as well as basic instant messaging and presence extensions. These same base protocols (with various improvements and extensions) are still in use today.
August:
Jeremie submits a
statement
pledging the Jabber community’s support for the IETF standards process. This statement is consistent with the founding mission of the Jabber project: to foster freedom of conversation and support open standards and interoperability in real-time communications.
2000
February:
The IETF publish work done by the Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) Working Group; in short, a model and set of requirements for instant messaging and presence systems.
May:
Version 1.0 of the jabberd server is released and the base Jabber protocols (XML streaming, messaging, presence, contact lists, etc.) are stabilised.
October:
jabberd 1.2 is released and the server dialback protocol introduced to prevent address spoofing on the rapidly growing network of Jabber servers.
2001
August:
The Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) is formed to coordinate the growing number of open source projects and commercial entities building/using the Jabber technologies. The key focus of the JSF is to manage the protocols used within the Jabber/XMPP community, by documenting existing protocols and developing protocol extensions through an open standards process.
2002
February:
The Jabber Software Foundation submits an
Internet-Draft documenting the Jabber protocols
to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
October:
Formation of the XMPP Working Group is approved by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). As a result, JSF formally contributes the base Jabber protocols to the Internet Standards Process and assigns change control over those protocols to the IETF, under the name Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
November:
First meeting of the XMPP Working Group is held at IETF 55 and includes presentations by Jeremie Miller, Joe Hildebrand, and Peter Saint-Andre.
2003
XMPP Working Group essentially completes work on formalising the base Jabber protocols for adaptation, as IETF-approved instant messaging and presence protocols; later revisions made to the base protocols focus on improving security and internationalisation.
Jabber Inc. submits an IPR Notice to the IETF regarding the JABBER trademark.
2004
October:
The IETF publishes
RFC 3920
and
RFC 3921
defining the core functionality of XMPP as Proposed Standards.
Upon publication of the XMPP RFCs, the IETF announces the conclusion of the XMPP Working Group. However, development of further XMPP extensions continues at the XSF.
2005
June-August:
The JSF participates in the Google Summer of Code.
August:
Implementation and deployment of large-scale XMPP-based services continues, highlighted by the launch of Google Talk.
2006
June-August:
The JSF participates in the Google Summer of Code.
July:
The first XMPP Summit was held in Portland, Oregon, USA.
October:
The JSF renames “Jabber Enhancement Proposals” (JEPs) to “XMPP Extension Protocols” (XEPs) and moves them to the xmpp.org website.
December:
The JSF enters into a partnership with StartCom, to offer free digital certificates to administrators of Jabber/XMPP servers through the XMPP Intermediate Certification Authority.
2007
January:
Jabber Software Foundation renames itself to XMPP Standards Foundation to more accurately describe its focus on developing open protocol extensions to the IETF’s base XMPP specifications, rather than open-source software.
February:
The XSF holds the second XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the Google Summer of Code.
July:
The XSF holds the third XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon, USA.
2008
February:
The XSF holds the fourth XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the Google Summer of Code.
July:
The XSF holds the fifth XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon, USA.
2009
February:
The XSF holds the sixth XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
July:
The XSF holds the seventh XMPP Summit in San Jose, California, USA.
2010
February:
The XSF holds the eighth XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
July:
The XSF holds the ninth XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon, USA.
2011
February:
The XSF holds the tenth XMPP Summit in Brussels, co-located with an interim meeting of the IETF’s XMPP Working Group, with a special focus on internationalization.
March:
The IETF publishes
RFC 6120
and
RFC 6121
updating the core definition of XMPP.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the Google Summer of Code.
2012
February:
The XSF holds the eleventh XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
February:
The XSF completes significant revisions to the XMPP multi-user chat extension (XEP-0045).
June-August:
The XSF participates in the Google Summer of Code.
October:
The XSF holds the twelfth XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon, USA.
2013
January:
The XSF holds the thirteenth XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
October:
The XSF holds the fourteenth XMPP Summit in Portland, Oregon, USA.
2014
January:
The XSF holds the
fifteenth XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
May:
Operators of servers on the public XMPP network permanently upgrade to encrypted communications.
September:
The XSF holds the sixteenth XMPP Summit in Berlin, Germany.
October:
The IETF publishes
RFC 7395
defining XMPP over WebSocket.
2015
February:
The XSF holds the
seventeenth XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
June:
The IETF publishes
RFC 7590
updating the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in XMPP.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the
Google Summer of Code 2015
September:
The IETF publishes
RFC 7622
modernizing the definition of XMPP addresses.
October:
The XSF holds the eighteenth XMPP Summit in Richland, Washington, USA.
2016
February:
The XSF holds the
nineteenth XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
May:
The XSF holds the twentieth XMPP Summit in Austin, Texas, USA, and host a booth at PyCon 2016 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
November:
The XSF accepted a Special Interest Group on IoT.
2017
February:
The XSF holds the
twenty first XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the
Google Summer of Code 2017
2018
February:
The XSF holds the
twenty second XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
2019
February:
The XSF holds the
twenty third XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the
Google Summer of Code 2019
2020
February:
The XSF holds the twenty fourth XMPP Summit in Brussels, Belgium.
2021
September:
The XSF starts acting as a
fiscal host
for XMPP related projects
2022
June-August:
The XSF participates in the
Google Summer of Code 2022
2023
February:
The XSF holds the
twenty fifth XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
June-August:
The XSF participates in the
Google Summer of Code 2023
2024
February:
The XSF holds the
twenty sixth XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
2025
February:
The XSF holds the
twenty seventh XMPP Summit
in Brussels, Belgium.
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