CEO on Board of XMPP Standards Foundation

Cleartext co-founder David Banes is voted onto the board of the XMPP Standards Foundation.

(Sydney, Australia – 8th August 2008) – Cleartext, a leading provider of managed messaging and messaging security services to enterprise and SMB markets, today announced that its Managing Director/CEO, David Banes, has been voted onto the board of the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) Standards Foundation.

"Todays instant messaging and social networks are becoming valid replacements for email but many of these have been developed using proprietary protocols. XMPP is an IETF (Internet Engineering task Force) standard and as such is being used to build new platforms, like Googles GTalk and FaceBooks own IM. Some legacy IM networks are moving towards XMPP so that they can participate in an open, federated network, just like email." said David Banes.

The mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is to build an open, standardized, secure, feature-rich, widely-deployed, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet.

Banes is well placed to promote the Foundation with more than twenty years experience in messaging and IT security and holding a position on the board of the Internet Industry Association (IIA) he's hoping to help push the XMPP message to the Australia internet industry.

About Cleartext

Cleartext draws on the knowledge of a team that covers the breadth and depth of the IT messaging, social business and security spaces across three continents.

The company has been delivering business communication, collaboration and social solutions since 2005, all with a mind to bringing these technologies into a business with adequate policy, compliance and security tools.

Cleartext's enterprise social messaging platform, Cleartext ESM, delivers real time one to one chat, group chat and microblogging that helps increase productivity by fostering the creation of communities in the workplace.

About the XMPP Standards Foundation

The XMPP Standards Foundation (formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

The XSF also provides information and infrastructure to the worldwide community of Jabber/XMPP developers, service providers, and end users. Although our elected members and self-selected sponsors provide a legal and financial basis for the organization, the XSF not a closed industry consortium but instead is a completely open and transparent standards development organization in which any interested individual may freely participate.