Now that Peter St. Andre has wrapped up most of his activities with the IETF XMPP working group, he has had some time to clean up some of the proposed protocol enhabcements to Jabber. See his blog entry, JEP City.

The collest one that I hadn't noticed before, is Jep-0080 User Geolocation.

This JEP defines a format for capturing data about an entity's geographical location (geoloc). The namespace defined herein is intended to provide a semi-structured format for describing a geographical location that may change fairly frequently, where the geoloc information is provided as Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. Potential uses for this approach include:

As long expected, the IESG has approved the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (draft-ietf-xmpp-core-22.txt) as a Proposed Standard. For those of you in the dark, thats the protocol behind the only tried and proven open IM platform, Jabber. Congrats to the hard working Peter Saint-Andre, and the entire XMPP Working Group.

Jabber is now the only official Internet Standard for Instant Messaging!