Google Talk activates XMPP server-to-server communications
It appears Google Talk has started federating with other Jabber servers. Gary Burd, a Google software engineer, flipped the switch to connect the Google Talk Service to the public XMPP network this morning. Google Talk users can now chat with users on other XMPP services and vice versa.
One of the most promoted features of Jabber/XMPP (the protocol which Google Talk uses) is its ability to communicate with other federated servers, much like email and its ability to communicate with any other server. You email bob@someplace.com, your mail server contacts someplace.com to send the message. You IM bob@someplace.com, your Jabber server contacts someplace.com to send the message. In both cases, the domain has to be running the appropriate server. So, you can't add hotmail.com or yahoo.com people, since neither Hotmail nor Yahoo are running Jabber servers.
Basically GTalk can now communicate with users of other Jabber/XMPP servers -- before GTalk was limited to only other GTalk users. This does not mean communication between MSN, Yahoo, or AOL because these services all use difference protocols. A full explination can be found on the Jabber.org website here.
A few days ago Google opened up their staff's XMPP server to the world, and it was anticipated that this was in preparation for the opening of Google Talk.
Posted by - GoogleFreak
January 18, 2006, 2:23 pm
News Source - Planet Jabber
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