[KLUG Driftwood] Open SIMPLE?

[Todd Pillars]

Today's focus:  It's SIMPLE

By Michael Cooney

This weeks Technology Update takes a look a something simple. 
Simple meaning Session Initiation Protocol for IM and Presence 
Leveraging Extensions technology.

In a nutshell SIMPLE is an effort to bring interoperability to 
instant-messaging networks. It's based on the Session Initiation 
Protocol (SIP) - the signaling and presence protocol used to 
establish Internet phone calls, multimedia conferences, chat 
sessions and interactive communications.

Remember that presence is a messaging technology that lets users 
or devices quickly find each other, no matter their physical 
location.

SIMPLE lets users of different instant-messaging software 
include each other on their buddy lists, detect when they are 
available to exchange instant messages and initiate real-time 
chat sessions.

So many big vendors, from IBM/Lotus, Microsoft to Sprint, 
already support SIMPLE, it seems to be a successful technology 
already.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

SIMPLE
http://www.nwfusion.com/links/Encyclopedia/S/799.html

SIMPLE is simply irresistible
Network World Convergence Newsletter, 06/18/03
http://www.nwfusion.com/go2/0119tech1a.html

IETF tames IM
Network World, 10/21/02
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1021simple.html

Anybody heard of an open SIMPLE? maybe a start here
http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/

Todd