[JDEV] Voice over IP

[Richard Dobson]

The beauty of Jabber/XMPP tho is that there is the possibility of gatewaying
to things such as SIP, so you can have the best of both worlds while
maintaining a single protocol on the Jabber/XMPP side, so there is no need
to worry too much about what will become the dominant voice protocol since
there is the possibility of interoperability.

Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Prince" <mike at mikeprince.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:42 PM
Subject: RE: [JDEV] Voice over IP


> I'm glad this is idle chit-chat on my side and I don't have to pick a
> protocol ;)
>
> SIP has momentum on it's side: a lot of companies are producing SIP
> products today.  (same could be said for H.323)  It's cool to see XMPP
> showing its flexibility  by negotiating streaming interactions, but I'd
> worry that it'd be yet another way of slicing the same problem.
>
> That said, more protocols=more options and let darwinian principals
> decide the outcome :)  (that is unless M$ or such imbalances the
> equation with cash)
>
> BTW, I should put some meat in the post:  Which XMPP clients support
> video/audio streaming?  Any open source ones.  Inquiring minds want to
> know...
>
> -Mike