Re: Controversial: Have SIMPLE reached is goal? Or is it an IETF failure?

> At the end of the day, I just want to be able to put anybody into my buddy list, regardless of what protocol they use, and be able to establish sessions with them that can use any combination of voice, video, and IM that seems useful at the time.

Hi Paul!

This sounds like a great goal.

As you say, putting anyone in a buddy list that just works when one tries to communicate would be a great achieving of this WG.

This requires the concept of a buddy list., which is really the missing part. I called it address-book, you called it buddy list and is really the same thing. 

Could we converge on this idea of having to define this buddy list/address book part of SIMPLE?

Adrian