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

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of a standard

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for

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. The abstract model was first published as an IETF

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, RFC 2778 "A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging" in February 2000, which was authored by Mark Day of

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(formerly of

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where helped develop

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, 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.

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External links

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

See also

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