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Instant Messaging - Services & Providers (Click)

Popular / selected web based IM Service providers:-

• Microsoft's MSN and .Net service
• Yahoo Messenger
• AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) - UK service
• Excite Messenger
• ICQ

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The links and documents found on this page refer to standards, proposals and draft standards. Whilst we endeavor to post the most recent versions, please refer to the IETF RFC's ITU SG16 and W3C for latest status

IETF IM & Presence Protocol (IMPP) (Click)

• IMPP Working Group defining:
  • Presence
  • Instant Messaign (IM)
  • Sharing
  • Naming
  • Authentication
  • Access Control
  • Salability

Related W3C Specifications (Click)

• Call Control XML (CCXML)
• Speech Recognition & Grammar
• Speech Synthesis

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The Presence and Instant Messaging community is deploying the first set of new capabilities and services to emerge from all the hype about "next gen" telecom services. Presence services allow users to subscribe to information about each other's state. Emerging presence services are beginning to enable new user-controlled multimedia services, including Instant Messaging.