On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >Tony Finch wrote: >>On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Dave Crocker wrote: >>> >>> IM is to XMPP as email is to SMTP et al. >> >> That would be premature, since Jabber has not yet taken over the IM world >> in the way that the Internet standards have done for email. > > Right. "Jabber is to XMPP as email is to SMTP as the web is to HTTP" > doesn't imply that all IM systems are based on XMPP.
Regarding your second comparison, it occurs to me that we still call it the (world-wide) web, not distributed multimedia hypertext, even though practically all distributed multimedia hypertext uses HTTP and HTML. [But then even WWW has less than twelve syllables.] Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
