I-D ACTION:draft-ramsdell-simp-protocol-00.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Simple Instant Messaging and Presence 1.0 Protocol Author(s) : J. Ramsdell Filename : draft-ramsdell-simp-protocol-00.txt Pages : 21 Date : 20-Apr-00 Instant messaging is designed to support message exchange at a rate that supports chat-like conversations. An instant message is delivered quickly to a recipient if the recipient is listening for messages, otherwise the message is dropped and the sender is informed of the delivery failure. A user of an instant messaging service can employ a presence service to keep track of the listening status of a set of users. By consulting this service, a user has a good chance of predicting if a message will get to its recipient. The Simple Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol is designed so that instant messaging and presence services can be provided by a set of distributed servers spread across many administrative domains. The vision is a service provided by a large number of sites much in the way that electronic mail service is provided today. The protocol is similar to email protocols. Users are identified by an Instant Message Address (IMA), which has the same syntax as an Internet email address [Email]. A message is delivered by connecting to the user's home server. A future version of the protocol will allow the use of digital signatures to authenticate the originator of a message transported by this protocol. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ramsdell-simp-protocol-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ramsdell-simp-protocol-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ramsdell-simp-protocol-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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