Re: XML Dispatching, 5335, and the Coffee Mug

["wkearney99" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> In the last couple of days, I've been going through a very similar
> problem with Instant Messaging. I'd like to be able to construct a
> link that means "start a chat session with X" that worked
> generically. But of course, with 4 incompatible majors and lots of
> smaller players as well, it's hopeless.

Indeed it is a morass.  It seems the various developers have 
forgotten the idea of cooperating for the greater good.  They've also 
forgotten the practice of submitting RFCs and following guidelines.  
There's nothing preventing the various vendors from putting forth 
fresh protocol handlers.  It seems they're just not willing to do the 
work and stand up to the scrutiny such efforts require.  But hey, 
it's all steaming full speed ahead anyway.

What would be most excellent would be for someone to sit down and 
write an inbound proxy for these various ports.  Something that 
understood internal client sessions.  Oh wait, Microsoft has already 
done this with the .Net framework and the my.Net services!  But since 
it's from that great satan in Redmond nobody wants to touch it.  So  
they continue to wail and moan about it not existing in open source.  
Jabber's got the right idea and it's slowly gaining momentum.  It's 
but one key in a very big puzzle.  

-Bill Kearney