This website provides complete information about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an open XML technology for presence and real-time communication developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999, formalized by the IETF in 2002-2004, and continuously extended through the standards process of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
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