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The logo guidelines that lived at this address
This address held a one page licence for a badge. It is worth reading, because it is a small, clear example of how a community protected a name.
From roughly 2001 to 2005, jabberpowered.org/guidelines.html carried the usage rules for the JabberPowered badge. Anyone whose product or website ran on Jabber could display the badge, on conditions. This page explains what those conditions were and what has replaced them, from the archived captures held by the Internet Archive.
What the page asked of you
The archived guidelines set out a short list of obligations. You agreed to promote Jabber by providing quality Jabber information, technologies or protocols. You agreed not to use the logo alongside material in poor taste or in breach of the law. You agreed to use only the official artwork, unaltered in size, proportion, colour or elements, standing alone rather than combined with another mark. You agreed that the badge would link only to the JabberPowered home page, and that it would not be a predominant feature of your site: at minimum, smaller than your own page title and your own logo.
The attribution clause, and why it matters here
One condition is the reason this page exists in its present form. Sites displaying the badge had to carry a legend on an attribution page: "JabberPowered is a trademark of Jabber, Inc. and its use is licensed through the Jabber Software Foundation." The page went on to state that Jabber, Inc. was the sole owner of the trademark and that the foundation licensed it.
That single sentence tells you the programme was a trademark licence, not a free-for-all. It is also why Presence & Protocol does not reproduce the badge artwork, does not offer it for download, and cannot grant anyone permission to use it. We are an editorial site that happens to publish at the address the programme once used. Who holds the name now is a longer story, told in the essay on the trademark.
The markup the page handed out
The instructions were as plain as the rules: paste an anchor around an image, pointing at the programme home page, in the badge size of your choice. Two consequences follow, twenty years later. First, almost every inbound link this domain ever received points at the root, not at a deep page, because the licence required it. Second, the badge files themselves were hotlinked from other people's servers. Those file addresses now answer 410, and they say so plainly: the artwork was deliberately not republished.
Where the rules live now
The Jabber Software Foundation renamed itself the XMPP Standards Foundation in January 2007, according to the timeline the foundation publishes about its own history. The foundation maintains published usage guidelines for the Jabber and XMPP names and for the current XMPP logo; those guidelines, not this page, are the authority on what you may do today. If you want to signal that something speaks XMPP, the honest modern equivalent is to say so in words and link to the specification, which costs nothing and misleads nobody.
Reading the rest of this site
The badge programme was a marketing surface for something real underneath: an open, federated protocol that still runs. Start with the reference page on the three stanza types, or with the timeline from jabberd to the XMPP RFCs. The two other archived addresses of this domain are the logos page and the directory page.
Source for the quotations above: the Internet Archive captures of jabberpowered.org/guidelines.html taken between 2002 and 2004. The wording is quoted as a historical record of a programme that no longer runs.