randy - hi. i'm a little confused about the exchanges this morning, so bear
with me.
i have no idea if this is an issue here, as i am not in contact
with w3c or whomever else. i expect you, pete, etc. will know far
better than i if we are nearing hot water here. i am just asking
you to please be conscious of the issue.
this is a fair point. there is no w3c effort on instant messaging, while
soap is certainly a w3c effort, i think most folks would be hard-pressed to
find much overlap between it and jabber, other than the fact that they both
use xml at different points in their stack.
fwiw i have nothing against jabber. some of my best friends jabber
:-). i am even trying to get a secure jabber server working (and
am hitting problems). i am just concerned about process and
precedent.
send me a private note explaining the difficulty, and maybe i can help.
/mtr