It’s SIMPLE

This weeks Technology Update takes a look a something simple. Simple meaning Session Initiation Protocol for IM and Presence Leveraging Extensions technology.

In a nutshell SIMPLE is an effort to bring interoperability to instant-messaging networks. It’s based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) – the signaling and presence protocol used to establish Internet phone calls, multimedia conferences, chat sessions and interactive communications.

Remember that presence is a messaging technology that lets users or devices quickly find each other, no matter their physical location.

SIMPLE lets users of different instant-messaging software include each other on their buddy lists, detect when they are available to exchange instant messages and initiate real-time chat sessions.

So many big vendors, from IBM/Lotus, Microsoft to Sprint, already support SIMPLE, it seems to be a successful technology already.