XMPP Standards Update

The document discusses the history and development of XMPP standards from 1999 to the present. It outlines the creation of the Jabber open-source projects in 1999, the formation of the Jabber Software Foundation in 2001 and the XMPP Working Group at the IETF in 2002 which formalized core XMPP standards. It also describes the current work of the XMPP Standards Foundation to develop extensions to XMPP through an open, consensus-based process and their collaborations with organizations to extend the protocol.