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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 3920

Updated by:

RFC 7590,RFC 8553

Author:

P. Saint-Andre

Stream:

IETF

Source:

xmpp (rai)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6120

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Abstract

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is anapplication profile of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) thatenables the near-real-time exchange of structured yet extensible databetween any two or more network entities. This document definesXMPP's core protocol methods: setup and teardown of XML streams,channel encryption, authentication, error handling, and communicationprimitives for messaging, network availability ("presence"), andrequest-response interactions. This document obsoletes RFC 3920. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.