Peter,

Please note the following introduction of XMPP at the following:

IEEE P1451.1.4/XMPP/IPDX at the NIST Cloud Computing Forum Workshop V

in Washington, DC on June 5-7, 2012: 

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/cloud-050212.cfm

There is no charge to attend!

New IPDX and IPDX.NET Enterprise Integration Service for Cloud Applications

using XMPP to provide M2M services including real-time web applications for

Android/Apple devices:

http://www.mact-usa.com/events.html

Please checkout other forums of discussion!

IEEE P1451.1.4 is now recognized internationally as ISO/IEC/IEEE 21451-1-4:

http://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/1451.1.4.html

If you are in the DC area hope we will see you there.  Regards,

W.J.MILLER, RPESIDENT, MaCT, (301) 500-9277