[Wocky] Google Talk S2S status
Mark Silis
mark at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 18 16:34:56 EST 2006
Hi Paul,
FYI we actually do have dialback enabled on jabber.mit.edu.
-- Mark
On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Paul B. Hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like Google Talk turned on server-to-server support
> sometime on
> Sunday, January 15th. It does require that other jabber servers enable
> dial-back for authentication. Jeff's server does this, the last I knew
> jabber.mit.edu did not have this enabled.
>
>> From <http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html#service_4>:
>
> 2. Whom are you federating with?
>
> We currently support open federation with any service provider that
> supports
> the industry standard XMPP protocol. This includes Earthlink, Gizmo
> Project,
> Tiscali, Netease, Chikka, MediaRing, and thousands of other ISPs,
> universities, corporations and individual users.
>
> 3. Do service providers need explicit approval to federate with the
> Google
> Talk service?
>
> No, there is no paperwork involved. Service providers just need to
> support
> the XMPP standard for server-to-server federation and their users
> will be
> able to talk to our users (and vice versa).
>
> 4. Do you plan to support other industry standards for communications
> interoperability?
>
> Yes, we plan to support SIP.
>
> 5. Where can I get more technical information about federating with
> the
> Google Talk service?
>
> If you are building your own XMPP service, refer to the XMPP specs.
> If you
> are using a commercial or open-source jabber server such as
> ejabberd, then
> federation should just work. One important thing to note is that we
> use
> dial-back for authentication.
>
> If you have any other questions, feel free to post to the Google Talk
> Interoperability Google Group.
>
>
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