Peter, Please note the 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