Presence and Instant Messaging (PRIM) was an early proposal to the

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of a standard protocol for

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. The abstract model was first published as a pair of IETF

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, RFC 2778 "A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging" and RFC 2779 "Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements" in February 2000, which was authored by Mark Day of SightPath (formerly of

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where helped develop IBM Lotus Sametime, now Chief Scientist at

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), Jonathan Rosenberg of dynamicsoft (now the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Collaboration at

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) and Hiroyasu Sugano of Fujitsu Laboratories LtdLtd. No work has been done on it since 2001. Currently, SIP and its derivative

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(both of which Jonathan Rosenberg also co-authored or invented), and

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are being considered for use as instant messaging protocols. These were Informational RFCs, which describe the model and requirements for the way an Instant Messaging Protocol should work on the Internet. A new working group - the

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group was established to develop the model in more detail.

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Presence and Instant Messaging Protocol (prim) WG - IETF Datatracker
Instant messaging protocols Working groups {{network-software-stub

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