Re: AIM will connect to Gtalk - Paul Johnson - com.googlegroups.google-talk-open

9 messages in com.googlegroups.google-talk-openRe: AIM will connect to Gtalk

From	Sent On	Attachments
ravijo	20 Dec 2005 22:35
Paul Johnson	20 Dec 2005 23:29
Magnus	21 Dec 2005 03:52
Magnus	21 Dec 2005 05:29
Matthew Wilson	21 Dec 2005 06:41
Isomer	21 Dec 2005 14:04
Paul Johnson	21 Dec 2005 19:46
Isomer	22 Dec 2005 02:27
Paul Johnson	22 Dec 2005 13:52

Subject:	Re: AIM will connect to Gtalk
From:	Paul Johnson (ba....@ursine.ca)
Date:	12/21/2005 07:46:12 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-talk-open

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 02:04 pm, Isomer wrote:

On 12/22/05, Matthew Wilson <mw44...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/21/05, Magnus <magg...@student.liu.se> wrote:

Here is the full press release by the way:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/twaol_expanded.html

And here's the line that we should all notice:

Enabling Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met;

The interesting question is what are the "certain conditions". That Gtalk clients can connect to aim, but they can't federate support over s2s? Antispam stuff? There are always going to be "certain conditions", yet they felt that this should be mentioned so they must be reasonably big certain conditions...

I looked more into it, and it looks like for AIM users to be able to talk to Google and vice-versa, special, Windows-specific software will be required.

BOO! Has AOL and Google not heard of transports?