Hey Flo,

Thanks for blogging about our commitment to openness. We’ve been working
really hard over the past few years in making all of our services more
open and standards based, working with the SIP as well as the
Jabber/XMPP communities. Our XMPP gateway at xmpp.oscar.aol.com, which
we’ve been working on for a while now, is just one approach we’re
tinkering with. As you pointed out, though, this particular server at
xmpp.oscar.aol.com is a test server, so I wouldn’t count on it being
reliable or even continuously available until we put some more work into
it to bring it up to our standards.

In the meantime, keep your eyes open for more announcements from us
soon. We’re excited by the work we’re doing and the support we’ve
received from the broader internet community and hope you’ll be just as
excited by what we’ve got to offer.

-Edwin Aoki
-Technology Fellow/Lead Architect, AOL Products

Извадка от мейлинг листа относно постепенното мигриране на AOL IM сървърите към по-отворени и стандартизирани решения.