The Googlians' Neutral Zone

Google has a section on server choice up in their Talk Q&A section. It talks about how IM and VoIP is not federated like email and the phone network. They make mention of their talks with Earthlink and Sipphone, but not a thing about the rest of the Jabber network. They do have an interesting quote, "We look forward to federating with any service provider who shares our belief in enabling user choice and open communications", and they provide a group on interoperability and an email if you want to join their federation.

I suggest we all send an email to the federation address saying something like, "Hi, I run a Jabber server and I would like to join the Google Talk federation. What do I need to do to join?" or something like that. Maybe they'll get the point after a few dozen emails that they need to do something.

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(Not so standard) Response from Google

"Hello [MyNameHere],

Thanks for your interest in federating with the Google Talk service. While this is not something that is enabled today with our beta service, we hope to enable it shortly.

When we have more information to share, it will be posted to http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html.

I'll also follow up again on this mail with details when we have them.

Regards,

The Google Talk Team"

I think it's a good idea to send those requests, as we have progressed in a couple of days from "We look forward to federating with any service provider who shares our belief in enabling user choice and open communications" to "we hope to enable it shortly".

Regards.

did it.

Thanks for your good template. Did send them exactly your sentence ;)

(Standard) Response from Google

"Thank you for your input on open communications. We appreciate your
thoughts on how Google can build a communications network that is open,
promotes user choice, and protects consumers' rights. While we may not be
able to respond directly to all feedback, we do appreciate your input, and
it will be taken into account as we do our part to help promote open
communications.

If you've expressed interest in federating your service with the Google
Talk service, we will respond to you shortly.

Sincerely,

The Google Talk Team"

Curious what this federation related response is going to be...

Why don't start a petition on petitiononline.com ?

Nuff said.

done :-)

Hello,

I'm running a popular public Jabber server with several hundred users.
I've read on your website that :

"We look forward to federating with any service provider who shares our
belief in enabling user choice and open communications"

At the moment, their is no possibility for my users to talk with
talk.google users.

What do I need to join the federation and enable users to talk with each
others, regardless of what server they use.

Thank you for your reply,

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