Basic general information about the protocols: creator, version, amongst others.
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Gadu-Gadu | GG Network | 2000 Jul 17 | Proprietary | Unique number e.g. 12345678
| Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Centralistic | Yes 5 (simple) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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IRC | Jarkko Oikarinen | 1988 Aug | Open standard | Nickname!Username@hostname (or "hostmask") e.g. [email protected]1 | Yes, but via a memo system that differs from the main system | Yes, depending on individual server support | No3 | No | Simplistic multicast | Medium | Yes (everyone, multiple simultaneous, any size) | No | No | No | No |
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Windows Messenger service | Microsoft | 1990 | Proprietary (Discontinued) | NetBIOS | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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MSNP (Windows Live Messenger, etc.) | Microsoft | 1999 Jul | Proprietary | Email address (Microsoft account) | Yes | No | Only for certified robots | No | Centralistic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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(Mumble) | Thorvald Natvig | 1999 Jul | Open standard | ? | Yes | Yes | Only for certified robots | No | Centralistic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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OSCAR (AIM, ICQ) | AOL | 1997 | Proprietary | Username, Email Address or UIN e.g. 12345678 | Yes | Yes (Aim Pro, Aim Lite) | No | No | Centralistic | client-based | Yes (Multiple, simultaneous) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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RVP (Windows Messenger, etc.) | Microsoft | 1997 Mar | Proprietary (Discontinued) | Windows Active Directory Login | No | No | ? | No | Centralistic | None | No | ? | ? | No | No |
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SIP/SIMPLE | IETF | 2002 Dec | Open standard | user@hostname | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Medium | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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Steam Friends | Valve Corporation | 2003 Sep 12 | Proprietary | SteamID/Username or Unique Number | Yes | Proprietary | No, although rising | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
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Skype | Skype | ? | Proprietary | Username | No | Proprietary | No | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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TOC2 | AOL | 2005 Sep | Proprietary (Discontinued) | Username or UIN e.g. 12345678 | Yes | No | No | No | Centralistic | No | paying members only | ? | ? | Partial | ? |
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XMPP/Jingle (Google Talk) | Jeremie Miller, standardized via IETF | 1999 Jan | Open standard | Jabber ID (JID) e.g. [email protected]/home2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unicast lists | Several Standardized Types | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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YMSG (Yahoo! Messenger) | Yahoo! | 1998, March 9 | Proprietary | Username | Yes | No | No | Yes | Centralistic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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Zephyr Notification Service | MIT | 1987 | Open standard | Kerberos principal e.g. [email protected] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Unicast lists | No | Yes | No | No | ? | No |
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Note 1: In [email protected], the a.b.com part is known as the "hostmask" and can either be the server being connected from or a "cloak" granted by the server administrator; a more realistic example is [email protected]. The tilde generally indicates that the username provided by the IRC client on signon was not verified with the ident service.
Note 2: In [email protected]/home, the home part is a "resource", which distinguishes the same user when logged in from multiple locations, possibly simultaneously; a more realistic example is [email protected]/home
Note 3: Scalability issue: The protocol gets increasingly inefficient with the number of contacts.[1][2]
Note 4: One-to-many/many-to-many communications primarily comprise presence information, publish/subscribe and groupchat distribution. Some technologies have the ability to distribute data by multicast, avoiding bottlenecks on the sending side caused by the number of recipients. Efficient distribution of presence is currently however a technological scalability issue for both XMPP and SIP/SIMPLE.
Note 5: There have been reports from users that the antispam filter is used to censor links to other IM programs and some websites.
See also
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